Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-27
The I11-Fated Mystery.

mains Sent to Yaphank-The Body OH
 Rupert Sargent-What Was Found on
 the Yacht-The Probable Date of the
 Tragedy.
 Below we print letter from MT. M. 0. Swezey giving graphic details regarding the quest for the bodies of the young men who sailed from here on the yacht Mystery.
 An examination of the yacht Mystery as she lay at New Bedford, whither she was taken after being raised, showed small hole in the port quarter above the water line, while personal effects of the Sargent brothers were found, as well as charts, and one life preserver and a calendar clock in the cabin. The clock had stopped at 6:44 with the indi- eator at 12, showing that the disaster oc- cured on the 18th. When found the yacht had all sail set. It is the opinion that the yacht was suddenly capsized. Hope of find ing the other bodies is growing faint, and a perusal of MT. Swezey's letter will further explain this. Mrs. Glenn, the mother-in-law of Leicester Sargent, Miss Glenn, her daughter, and Mrs. George H. Sar- gent, mother of the lost boys, came on from West Falmouth on Saturday and went on to New York. They were accompanied by George Sargent, son of J. B. Sargent. MT. Glenn and A. w. Parmelee are still at West Falmouth, where they will probably remain for few days longer, in the hopes of obtaining some news of the two
 bodies which are still missing. The remains
 of Rupert Sargent, which are now In 8 re-
 ceiving vault at West Falmouth, will proba-
 bly, be buried at Nantucket. Leicester Sar- gent was very fond of the water, fine swim
 mer and skillfuI sailor. He once made 8 swim of seven miles. The old shippers at Nantucket gave him credit for knowing how
 to handle boat very ably. The identifca- tion of the body of Rupert Sargent was very complete. Among other means of identifca- tion was button which was sewed on with
 black thread by Rupert just before starting on the trip, on his working shirt. MT. Swez- ey writes as follows:
 New Haven, Aug. 26.-At your request I will give you somewhat detailed account of what personally saw, and of my own ex- perience and observation at West Falmouth and vicinity,-the place where the two bodies of the lost yachtsmen were found. Mir. A.
 w. Parme1ee and the Glenn party, Consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn and Mrs. Leicester Sargent) together with myself, reached that place from Boston about II o'clock a. m. There we met at the depot Messrs Coffin and Barnes and Miss Glenn, who had just come over from Nantucket to identify the body of Rupert Sargent, which had been found and temporarily buried in the sand 8 few days before. They had brought with them from the grave piece of the shirt and the life preserver, marked plainly Gas read it for myself) ''C. H. Northam." At that time there WAS report that near that place a body had been seen, but not yet recovered. I at once sent despatch in duplicate to the New Haven Yacht club at Greenport, Long Island, and H. G. Newton of New Haven, also to E. w. Bullinger, New York, as fol- lows: cone body only found supposed, by friends to be Rupert. Another body only seen, but not recovered. More as soon as reliable" This was all could say with certainty at the time, and knowing that all of the above par ties had my promise would telegraph them something immediately did so. For the next hour it was nothing but rumors. There was but railroad telegraph in the place, with 8 single wire, and asked for railroad busi- ness only, and Miss Mary L. Davis, the op- orator, told meshe had no authority to re- ceive messages except for railroad work, and could take none except subject to the delay consequent Hence it was just impossible to com municate with many proposed to, including yourselves.
 Not wishing to be idle and not knowing which clue to fellow hired 8 man to row
 me over the bay to the beach where the first body was found, taking with me another man to thoroughly search the shore in that vicinity while I would personally do the same in another direction. After some hours I came back to the depot to get tidings and was met by MT. Parmelee with dispatch from MT. Bullinger which had been forward ed by team from another point that 6 body had been found near New Bed ford and for me to proceed there immediately, and on the heels of that came word by telephone from Pocassett that 8 body had been found there. Then every thing was confusion. Pocassett was eight miles away and the next train to that place would be the only one with which could get to New Bedford on that day, yet must be in both places as soon as possible. As good luck would have it reconstruction" train was at work few miles above and we succeeded in getting that to take us to Pocassett and give us few moments tbere before the train for New Bed ford was due. Hurrying on board all the party (which had been added to by several young men searching for Mir. Bartlett's body) we were soon at Pocassett and at the depot met the man who had found the body there having the gold watch, which I at once recognized as MT. Hawkins, as it was formerly my own. The question then was to get to the beach mile away and back to the depot in time for the train for lew Bedford in case I was mis- taken, and so part way in farm wagons, part way on foot, we ran or rode and scramDling over rocks bushes, fences and all other ob- structions in our haste. l was the third person on the spot. It was in an arm of Buzzard's Bay, jutting into the land mile or more upon low marshy salt meadow in plain sight, prone upon his back with his head away from the shore and his feet about twenty feet from the water Gas the tide was out) that first saw my nephew since bade him good bye in the office of the New Ha- ven Ruff1e company.
 The face was entirely gone Not 8 vestige remained of hair, muscles, skin or anything whatever, but the ghastly skull, bare and white. The under jaw was disjointed and lay across the face and several front teeth were out, likely by contact with the rocks while drifting about. On the body were pair of blue corded pants, blue flannel shirt and vest. I would have testified to the clothing had I found anything else. MT. Parmalee and my self searched the pockets, taking article after article therefrom which knew full well the sight of myself, among other things the night key of our house in College street, an d to show the numerous bystanders that I could not be mistaken took from nay own pock- ct the duplicate of the key and made com parison in the presence of them all. That was the most satisfactory and conclusive of all Not person from that moment ques- tioned that no matter what might have been the fate of the others, or the yacht, the body of Robert Hawkins was before us.
 At that moment for the first time my feel ings gave way. had hoped against hope, had vainly tried to fix in my mind that there
 might have been some mistake about all for mer coniectures and the boys were yet safe until then, although the finding of the O. H. Northam's life preserver on the other body had seemed to be conclusive of their fate to all others but myself.
 The rest is well known and already made public, second metallic coffin was tele- eraphed for like the one just received for the otherabody and the same undertaken given in charge. Removing the body out of reach of tide it was watched for the night, and on the morrow MT. George A. Holt, MT. BulIinger's cashier of New York, arrived. and the hum dred dollars reward was paid to MT. Jesse Barlow who discovered. ths remains while showing a skiff along shore in quest of spot to land and pick whortleberries.
 No one would have ever dreamed of look ing at that point if on search, which to my own mind clearly shows that if the others are ever found it will be by accident only, for truthfully think 8 thousand men might search the vicinity for long time unnecessarily, as there are so many of those little juttingg all along the Cape Cod shore. cannot close ,v:ky,o,t voviuC a krihute 0f reaueok fo MII Eha