The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-07
WATERY GRAVES
HENRY ". KEES AND MARY BURNS
 THE VICTIMS.

Jumped Overheard From the Northam-
 He Leaves Nine Children, the Youngest
 but Few Days Old-The Young Woman Found watery Grave at the Docks of the Steam Saw Mill.
 Frederick D. Clark, an oysterman liv- ing at 70 South Front street, Fair Ha- ven, discovered, about 9:30 o'clock yes terdaD morning, the body of man floating in the Quinnipiac river. be- tween the Tomlinson and Quinnipiac bridges. MT. Clark, who was rowing at the time, pulled to the place where he saw the Body, placed line around it and lowed it ashore.
 He then notified Acting Medical Ex- aminer Dr. Gustavus Eliot. The ex- aminer found that the body was that of Henry w. Kees a carriage trimmer of 102 Hamilton street. It did not have the appearance of having been in the water many hours and was not dis figured. pr. Eliot had the remains removed to the undertaking establish ment of Theodore Keller on Orange street and gave a death certificate ac- cording to the facts in the case after notifying Coroner Mix of all the cir cumstances attending the, death As there were no marks of violence on the body there will be no further investiga- tion. Kees will be buried from his late residence at ? o'clock Tuesday after noon.
 Kees was formerly employed at the factory of A. T. Demarest on Chapel street Lately he had been out of work. He was about forty-four years old.
 For some time MT. Kees has been in ill health and has been, it is said, in Respondent and melancholy state of mind.
 A short time after this MT. Kees sui ficiently recovered so as to be able to go to Brooklyn in search of work. He was successful and had been working there ever since. He was at home last Sunday and Monday, leaving on the morning boat
 MT. Kees told his wife last Monday when he left home for New York that he would be at home yesterday, leaving New York on the Saturday night boat. Nothing had been heard from him by any member of his family from the time he went away last Monday until yesterday, when word was sent that his body had been found in the river. Mrs. Kees said to a Journal and Courier reporter yesterday afternoon that she had telegraphed to her husband on Fri day. but did not succeed in finding him. The family think that MT. Kees took passage on the Northam from New York The medical examiner thought that there was little doubt that Kees was one of the Northam's passengers out of New York This however, could not be verified last evening as the Northam was in New York.
 The deceased leaves a widow and nine children the oldest of whom is tWenty-one years old and the youngest less than one week old.
 Kees was a member of Humboldt lodge, I. o. o. F., Aurora Encampment, Uniformed Rank, I. c. O. F., and the Order of Seven Wise Men.
 The funeral will be in charge of Hum boldt lodge and will take place Tues day afternoon from his late residence, 1O2 Hamilton street. The interment will be in Evergreen cemetery.
 The second case of drowning in this city yesterday occurred last eve- ming about 10 o'clock at the end of a pile of lumber in the docks of the New Haven steam sawmill on Chapel street, near the bridge. The victim was Mary Burns, the twenty-year-old daughter of Michael Burns, who lives at g Stew ems street The facts in the case as far as could be learned last evening are substantially the following: Miss Burns and a young friend of hers named Abels were last seen in com pany with two young men near the scene of the accident. This was about o'clock. They were then on the street at least 100 feet away from where the accident took place. To reach the water the young people were obliged to climb over the lumber or make their way through narrow passage between the tiers of boards. Out at the end of these board, which do not extend into the water at any uniform distance the darkness on a night like last evening is intense and one could easily walk overheard. Whether the girl acci- dentally fell into this water because of the darkness or went to her death af- ter considering the matter may be de- termined later.
 When she fell into the water the remaining three ran toward the street. The first person they saw when Chapel street was reached was Joseph Father gill of Wooster street. The young men returned with him to the end of the lumber and showed him where the young woman went down.
 Without waiting to see the result of Fathergilrs efforts to recover the body the young men left the place, saying that they were going to notify the young woman's parents.
 The news of the drowning spread rapidly and before MT Fathergill had made the second dive fully 800 people were standing one the lumber and in the street awaiting the result of the search. The body was found about 10:30 D. m. Acting Medical Examiner Eliot was notified and acquainted Deputy Coroner Callahan of the circumstances of the case. That officer, acting in the absence of Coroner Mix, ordered the body removed to the morgue. He gave