The sun., 1891-06-01
DIED ALONE IN HIS BOAT.
PRENTICE MULroBD,s BODY FOUND IN
6HEEPSHEAD BAE

PRENTICE MULroRD's BODY FOUND IN
sHEEPsHEAD BAY.
Ne was spirftasiist, ana when He Was
| Taken III He Appears 10 Have Called on
Guiaipg spirit-fHer Advice sna Cosso-
lstions Wrtsten Ous By Hin ss = Mesiun.
The man who was found lying dead In the
bottom Of . canoe in sheepshead Bay on Sat-
urday afternoon was identified yesterday af-
ternoon by Frederick J. Needham OF 80 West
Fourteenth street as Prentice Mulford, the ed
| itor Of the White Cross Library. monthly
spirituallst publication owned By Mr.. Need
ham. Mr.. Mulford left this city last Monday In
Mr. NeedhAm's canoe. tho White Cross In
tending to sail to Sag Harbor. L. l.. whore two
/ of his sisters live. The canoe was provided
with q camping outfit and a banjo and was
we'll provisioned. He waa to take the usual
course through Great South Bay.
| The boat when found was secured to the
| bank Just back OF the Manhattan Bench Hotel.
Mr.. Muliord was lying face downward. and 1t
| is ssuppossd he had been dead about two days.
| Tho canoe had been seen to enter the bay on
Monday. The Coroner thinks death was
caused By apoplexy. Mr.. Needham says Mr..
Mulford was in excellent health on Monday.
the day he started on his trip.
He was to write an essay for his publication
while he was on his trip and It was TO reach
the Office yesterday. lot OF paper such as he
was accustomed to write his copy" on was
found In the boat He had written no essay.
but . singular screed was found written ON
sheets OF the COPY paper. Mr.. Huliord was
not only Q srirltualist but medium.
The article. rsads as dictated to
him By the spirit OF q woman and
It begins a. II MI. Milford had been taken Ill.
and in consequence had called on some guild
ipg spirit From other parts Of Il. It appears
that the trip was undertaken in order that Mr..
Nulford might bo alone with and in closer
communion with this spirit 1t was begun
on Monday probably while Mr.. Mulford's
canoe was anchored In the bay. A number OF
the written sheets were found In the canoe.
Following is q CODY OF the article:
MAY Is. C91l.-Dear. the gases had . ten
dency TO rise by reason OF your unusual posi-
tion In tho boat. That gives tho form OF
nausea. The thought gives you tho idea OF
sick stomach. aud good material mind goes to
work and shoves the idea Of weakness on your
body. As now you see. your mind seizes I'm.
mediately on triles and makes mountains OF
them. drought on you these conditions that i
might more clearly show you thia 1t 10 the
fear Of those things so bad In tho mind that
does tho injury. and your mind In these periods
Of isolation will be more readily cleared Of
nsss yoa '6s
cannot flnd one elsewhere. 30. under these
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realize i more and more.
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Of time for doing small things. Remember the
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Aer enSns seboo seDs he hotel
three years. lp 1885 be shipped before the