Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-10
HOW DID DR. OLNEY DEF
The Mystery to Be Investigated
 by the Authorities.
MISS WHITES VARYING STORIES.

The spirItuaIIst Who Was Drowned at
 Onset Ray Was Nephew of the United
 States Attorney GeneraI-MIss White Was
 n Medium, and the Two Were Friends.
 wAREHAM, Mass, Oct. l0.-There is deal that is strange about the death of Dr. Charles Theodore Olney of Brooklyn, n nephew of the attorney general of the | nit ed States. He was drowned Saturday night in Onset bay, and time does not seem to be doing much to clear 1t up.
 Gussie White, the young woman who came to Onset Bay with Dr. Olney only two weeks ago, told, when taken from the water, a peculiar story about hearing him scrcafn ing wildly and having gone out in boat in vain effort to rescue him. She has had n chance to retell her story. She is n pc culiar woman and spiritualist. When questioned Saturday night, she sail Dr. Olney told her when he started for the shore that he was going for n swim. Then, she says, she thought there was trouble in store and followed him.
 Miss Whites Explanation.
 The people at the Bliss cottage, where both Dr. Olney and Miss White have been boarding, say that he was in an unusually good humor at the tea table just before go- ing out.
 The fact that he had all of his clothing on when found leads 10 the conviction that he could not have intended suicide. If he had been overturned from boat by acci- dent, as Miss White has suggested might have been the case, the boat would have been picked up. No sign of boat or oars has been found.
 Dr. Olney was a giant in strength and a capital swimmer. These facts, people here think, make it unlikely that he would take that method of suicide even if he were bent on self destruction
 When she talked sunday. loo, Miss White said the doctor was suffering with q bowel complaint Friday. and that might have unsettled his mind No other evi- dence pointing tu such conclusion can be found
 One thing is certain The people, here are not by any means satisfied that Miss Whites story k true or if il is that she has told all she knows abCp; events prelimi- nary to his death. Deputy sheriff James w. Hurley has taken up the case and says he will demand a searching examination. He took the first step today, when Medical Examiner George l.. Ellis of Middleboro came here to hold the inquest. ! The deputy sheriff presided at the hear ing, which was held at Cornell Brothers | undertaking shop. where Olneys body lies. 1 Miss White, who by the way, was the only friend Dr. Olney had here, was questioned. | She had calmed down somewhat since Sun | day and told a clearer story.
 The Deputy Sheriff wHI Investigate. She had said sunday, she testified, that she had known Dr. Olney in New York for 1 over year, and that when he came to Onset Bay she took a room at the Bliss ! cottage. and had been near him much of the time up to the hour of his death. She admitted that he was more or less wild that sometimes he had plenty of money, and at other times absolutely none. FoI two days last week he was sick and had drank freely. It was because she had feared that he would go to drinking again that she followed him to the bathing beach as she did.
 Minor witnesses were heard and hearing closed. Then Medical Examiner Ellis told a reporter that his belief was that the drowning was accidental and that ht . should issue a certificate for the removal of the body at once.
 Whatever the mans condition may have been," said the examiner. his deatl was certainly caused by drowning" Dr Ellis implied that he believed Dr. Olncy tc be of unsound mind. The deputy sheriff is by no means so easily satisfied. H. wants the mystery cleared up. What tht authorities will do cannot be learned.
 \ friend of pr. Olney, who lives nea Boston, said that the doctor had acquired reputation high roller" long befor, he left Boston to Eo to Brooklyn. He WA: native of Taunton and came of the olt Olney family. He was prominent in tn, Order of Elks, and T. T. Mccarthy, q fellow Elk, came here from Lynn today to talk, the body ta Taunton. The townspeople ar greatly wrought up about Dr. Olney death and the accompanying mystery.