The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-27

sighted off the bow, doubled like ball,
and caught with boat hook Just as it was
sinking again. AS soon as it was hoisted to
the dock, eager hands attempted to resus-
citate the apparently drowned man. They
rolled him over a barrel, and exhausted
every other means ordinarily used in SINH
lar cases, but without success.
PRONOUNCED DEAD BY A DOCTOR.
A doctor was summoned, and after max
ing an examination said very positively:
This man Is dead" That was enough for
Nace's fellow workmen, who hurried off to
convey the news to his mother and friends
up town. The policeman who rang the
patrol box said simply: "Send the wagon
to the Queen street wharf for the body of a
drowned man." When itarrived the patrol
sergeant and his crew found a crowd sur
rounding the body, but no one present who
knew who the dead" man was. His
than that the man had been fshed out of
the river and that the doctor had pro-
nounced him dead.
The body was placed in the wagon and
taken to the Second district station house,
where it was laid with little ceremony In
the stone corridor facing the cells The
day sergeant's dispatch to the central sta
ton, based on the patrol sergeant's report,
was: Coroner wanted at Second district !;
body of an unknown man drowned at Queen
street wharf"
While Samuel Mace was numbered with
the unknown dead in the police report, his
aged mother, surrounded by sympathizing
friends and relatives, waited in the little
uptown home expecting every moment the
arrival of his body. His fellow-workmen,
In their haste to convey the news to the
mother, had thoughtlessly left the police
without any information to establish his
identity, and the distracting scenes of grief
had dispelled any afterthought in the mat
ter from their minds
When the night force came on at the
Second district the sergeant and turnkey
were notified that the body of drowned
man was in the corridor waiting the coro-
ners wagon to be taken TO the morgue.
The Second district station house is pecu-
llarly built. having its cells separated from
the main building by a narrow stone pas
sage that opens at either end in the yard
Over the entrance to the corridor dim
gaslight burns at night. That night there
was no prisoners in the cells.
THE DEAD" MAN WALKS.
About 8 o'clock, when the turnkey, who
was sitting in the passage, heard a slight
noise, like something moving in the corridor,
he was puzzled. and listened intently. The
second time it came more distinctly, and
had the unmiStakable sound of footstep on
the stone floor. 1t startled him, and his fear
was increased when lie Remembered that
there was nobody inside-nothing but the
body of the man fished out Of the river
Mastering all his courage, he approached
the wicker gate, and peeping through he
saw the figure of man standing upright in
the dim light. The next moment the turn
key ran wildly through the building, up
setting the sergeant's nerves and tobacco
and crying: THAT body is up and walking
aroundw
turnkey declared that in his single glance
through the icket he had seen the UNI
known dead" man standing at his full
hight with both arms outstretched and his
ono eye fixed vaguely ON the uncertain
light toward which he was gr oping.
'Pshawm said the sergeant, still ridi-
culing the storys you've got em, or else
you're dreaming"
The turnkey insisted that he was telling
the truth, and the sergeant consented to in
vestigate. They had no need to go far, for
already in the stone passage the unknown
dead" was slowly feeling his way with that
same bewil1ereds movement and stare, while
from his lips came the almost inaudible
questions: as this a station housel II it is,
what was brought here forr
why, you were brought here for
drowned" answered the turnkey at long
range.
The unknown looked at him vacantly for
a moment, and then seemed suddenly to
comprehend. "0h, yes,n he said, ~ re-
member now. My name is Samuel Mace. /
slipped on the dock, didn't II Everything
was a blank after that until | opened my
eyes and saw that dim light in there. l
looked at it a long time trying to make out
what it was, and finally / says to myself.
Samuel Mace, you amt of home when a
mans face looked in and was gone before
could wink"
THOUGHT TO BE A GHOST.
Mace was given nourishment, and by 10
O'Clock was sufficiently recovered 10 be put
on Third street car at Christian street and
sent home. Getting off at Thompson he
walked the rest OF the way. and as he APP
preached his door noticed groups of neigh
bors standing around and an undertakers
wagon at the curb. He hurried through the
crowd, and q woman screamed cts his
ghosur The next moment he strobe inside,
and catching a glimpse of him his old
mother tainted. The undertaken had Just
been saying that be had been to the morgue,
but could find no trace OF the body Initial
steps had already been taken to collect a
death benefit of Sl13 duo Nace's relatives
by the prudential company. The following
morning. while yet very sick man, he read
the following paragraph in morning
paper:
IAN unknown man was drowned at
Queen street wharf yesterday afternoon.
His body was rescued and taken to the
morgue. Nothing was found on him that
would establish his identity, but his left eye
WAS closed nrohahlv through an accident y