Connecticut western news., 1893-10-12
DIR. OLNEY'S DEATH.
THERE IS MUCH MYSTERY ABouTTHE
 ONSET BAY TRAGEDY.

miss White. Who Says She Found Him,
 Gives Several ExpIanations-Ths Desd
 Man Was a Nephew of Attorney General
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 WARRHAM, Mass, Oct. l0.-There is a deal that Is strange about the death of Dr. Charles Theodore Olney of Brooklyn, a nephew of the attorney general of the Unit ed States. Hewas drowned Saturday night in Onset bay, and time does not seem to be doing much to clear it 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 scream ing wildly and having gone out in boat in vain effort to rescue him. She has had a chance to retell her story. She is pe- culiar woman and spiritualist. When questioned Saturday night, she said Dr. Olney told her when he started for the shore that he was going for swim. Then, she says, she thought there was trouble in store and followed him.
 Miss Whites Explanation
 The people at the Bliss cottage, whert both Dr. Olney and Miss White have been boarding, say that ha 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 to 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 giant in strength and a capital swimmer. These facts, people here think, make 1t unlikely that he would take that method of suicide even if he were bent on self destruction.
 When she talked Sunday, too, Miss White said the doctor was suffering with bowel complaint Friday, and that might have unsettled his mind. No other cvi- dence pointing to such conclusion osn be found.
 One thing Is certain. The people here are not by any means satisfied that Miss Whites story Is true, or If 1t Is that she has told all she knows about events prellmi- nary to his death. Deputy Sheriff James w. Hurley has taken up tho 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 Olney's body lies. 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 & clearer story.
 The Deputy sherin win Investigate. She had said Sunday, she testified, that she had known Dr. 0lney in New York for over a year, and that when he came to Onset Bay she took 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 For 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 reporter that his belief was that the drowning was accidental and that he should issue certificate for the removal of the body at once.
 "Whatever the mans condition may have been," said the examiner. "his death was certainly caused by drowning.p Dr. Ellis implied that he believed Dr. olney to be of unsound mind. The deputy sheriff is by no means 90 easily satisfied. He wants the mystery cleared up. What the authorities will do cannot be learned. A friend of Dr. Olney, who liges near Boston, said that the doctor had acquired a reputation, as a Thigh roller" long before l he left Boston to 20 to Brooklyn. He was a native of Taunton and came of the old Olney family. He was prominent in the Order of Elks, and J. T. Mccarthy, a fellow | Elk, came here from Lynn today to take the body to Taunton. The townspeople are l greatly wrought up about Dr. 0lney's death and the accompanying mystery.