The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1895-04-19
WENT TO HIS DEATH.
STRANGE FATE or HENRY
HALLADAY WICKER.
lie Passed the summer at Ills Fathers
cottage on Massachusett. Hay -Fioated
on ucoanward In -. uory aud HAS
Not Iiren Heard Of since.

y
tho publication Of the following in a
paper recently.
"l.ost at sea of Marblchcad. Tues
day. september H.. 1894. Henry llalla-
day Wicker. aged Is years. months .
and . days. eldest son Of Cassius NJ. I
Wicker aud Of Augusta French Wick .
or. deceased. All vessels navigating .
Massachusetts lay the day Of the T.
probable accident and the following .
day have been traced. their officers I
have lcon interviewed at thoir ports |
Of destination, ana they all report no /
rescue; nor has the body been rocoy-
crcd.'
Henry Halliday Wicker was the
elder son aud eldest child Of Cassius
VI. Wicker. the president Of the Iancs-
villc 4 Ohio railroad. who lives at 400
West End avenue. says the New York
| Sun.
Henry was tall. manly fellow.
| handsome and muscular. Last spring
he completed his college preparation
at the Berkeley school. on the football
team of which he played ut tacslo,and
/ passed his entrance examination 10
!
| Wicker took cottage at Swamscott
| on the Massachusetts, coast. about
midway between Nahant aud Marble.
head. The beach at ESwamscott
| stretches out 90 meet Massachusetts
bay. and every coltagor there pos
scsscs ono or more boats
Whom tho family took possession Of
| the cottage the first thing shat Henry
wanted wa, boat. lie had long
known how to swim. hc pulled
strong oar. and was a fairly good
sailor. 10 his father bought for him
large dury. rugged with "a lcg-'o.mut-
ton sail. Once In possession Of the
boat. Henry spent most Of his time ON
the water. There was no part Of tho
bay within radius OF five miles with
which he did not become familiar.
nor an inlet hc had not explored. All
through the summer the dOry and it,
young skipper were constant compan-
ions. and the fishermen of the coast
said there was not better sailor
from Salem to Boston. Only once did
no cause the family the slightest anN-
lets Tor his safety. That was the day
before he sailed away never to return.
II was Monday. September 10. and.
n the morning was nno. Henry asked
his cousin. Miss llulladay. Ia sail with
him TO Marblohoad.
Whom they had not returned ut din
ner limo tho members Of the family
became much worried. just as they
were about to institute search for
them the young couple came In. The
water was 30 rough. Henry told his
father. that whom thoy reached "a little
settlement of fishermen two miles
below Swampscott he put In there.
loft tho dory. and he and his cousin
hal walked home. The following day
the older members Of the family worc
TO he away from home, aud II was ar
ranged that the young people should
, spend tho day ut Tho Willows" "A
. sort Of Conoy island on small scale.
, When morning came Henry told
Miss Halliday and his sister that while
they were gone 10 the station 10 soc
r his father and grandmother OF lac
4 would hurry over 10 tho place whore
/ dory had boon left the night before
and bring the boat around 10 their
own pier, He said he would ho back
b,foro thoy returned, and, with q
, hurried good.hy, left them. Mono OF
( his family have ever socn hun since
When his sister and cousin got bacl'
. from the station Henry hal not re-
A turned. 80 they went ON. leaving in
1 structions with the servant that when
q. he did come he was 10 follow thcm
( EtThc two girls spent u rathor forlorr
day at 1.-The Willows" and returned
homo about 3 o'clock In the afternoon
Ina short tlmo IA cousin ~ Mrs
a Wicker came In and the girls told hcl
+" about Henry. The cousin was alarmed
at once, ana going into the house fol
! strong pair of Held glasses she has
toned TO the shore to sean the hay
Nothing wa, 10 be- seen Of the dory
Tho appearance Of the bay, however
was rcassur.ng. for II was smooth a
x q mill pond Hut Us tho boy had no
returned ~ > O'Clock, the ladies' hasti
2 Is drove 70 the fishing hamlet and In
uuircd II any of the fishermen ha,
ia soon him. MANY Of the men were ol
the beach when Horny came for bal
NJ, dory, and they had seen him sal
away In southoastorly direction to
. wari Egg Rock, about i've miles dis
~ tant They said that the bay wa
, saio enough II his boat had not Doe
= struck by the faw Of wind While
swept tho bay between II and !
- o'clock in the forenoon II the ila'
" had struck the dory well tho oil
fishers grayely shook thoir heads,
Il All that night and all the next da
Tia search was kept mp, but without avail
The father. hulf.distractcd, tolographo
ne To all the points along the coast. bl
I'd no tidings OF the boy came bacl
Finally, on the forenoon Of Wodno
"a day. word came from Boston that
ri fishing smack had picked up u boa
lying bottom up ON tho water, of ~
Rock, with all the sail lying ON u
NC water beside H. II was only a sho
~ time after that message came ov'
the wires that the father had ma,
Of certain that the boat belonged 10 h
'al son. More than that no Que has oy.
learned,
N Whether the little craft was stru,
he by tho law In tho morning or by