The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-02-20
TOURIST DROWNED
7. E. French Of California at
Sans S0lCi.
THE BODY FOUND NEAR THE REEF
Supposed to Have Been
Stricken with Cramps.
The BODY FOUND NEAR THE REEF
Body Recovered by NatiVes-Will
be Taken to CalifornIa-A Re-
Iative Frustrated.

The sea has claimed another victim,
and this time it happens to be young
man by the name of Edward French,
of San Francisco, Cal, who came here
on the last Australia with his grand
mother, Mrs Jennings, in the interest
berculosis. He went out for bath, as
usual, at Sans Souci, about 9 o'clock
yesterday morning, and after remain
ing in the water for about half an hour,
threw up his hands, called for help and
disappeared beneath the surface, to
rise no more alive. The whole event
is wrapped in the saddest possible cir
cumstances.
For the past four days Mr.. French
had been staying at Sans Souci, as he
found the balmy breeZes of that place
and the soothing roar of the sea most
congenial to himself. His grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Jennings, remained at the Ha-
waiian Hotel.
He was in the habit of going into
the water at least twice every day, and
it was noticed that whenever he made
the first plunge it was always with
shivering and shrinking, indicating
somewhat the condition of his health.
On Thursday night he was as jolly
and jovial as possible, and in the COM
pany of some Of the guests at the pop
ular bathing resort, played the violin
and piano, and expressed himself
highly pleased with life in the tropics.
He rose early Friday morning, and
after taking a short walk, went into
the dining room and ate very hearty
breakfast. Upon going outside again
he told someone standing nearby that
he did not feel very well. This was
about o'clock.
Shortly after he went to the cook,
got a blue bathing suit and went for
a dip in the sea. It seems that no one
saw him go in.
At all events, it was about 10 o'clock
when there was a commotion among
the natives working on the Irwin prem
ises, when one or two broke from the
gang and started toward the Sans
Souci pier. What made the natives run
was a cry for help from French, who
had thrown up his hands and gone
down like lump of lead.
W. L. Frazee, foreman of the Ha-
waiian Electric Company's works, who
was working with his men wiring the
Irwin barn for the ball last night, saw
the man about the same time, and
summoned John Marshal, the expert
swimmer, who is likewise employed
with the electric light company. He,
in company with a native, swan around
IN the locality indicated by one Of the
natives by the vague term: "Over
there" and an equally vague sweep of
the hand. After swimming about for
long time the men took a canoe and
padded around, but nothing was to
be found.
After this half dozen or so natives
living in the vicinity were sent out
and deceased was found near the inside
boundary of the rocks, just beside the
house at the end of the pier. He was
taken into his room, and DR.. Wood
who had been summoned, tried all he
could to bring the young man back to
life, but he had been in the water close
upon three hours, and that with fatal
effect.
Mrs. Jennings, the grandmother of
the deceased, had been telephOned for,
and was on the scene. She was COM
Dletely Frustrated by the awful calam
ity and was taken into town by Mrs.
4. 2. Wood soon after the finding OF
the body.
United States Charge d'Affaires Mills
w"s sent for and took charge of all the
9rr9n gem ents necessary. Ed A. Will
liams. the undertaken was sent for and
took the body to town to be emblamed.
Mrs Jennings will return to San
Francisco with the body of her grand
son by the Zealandia.
When at home Mr.. French lived at
Valley Springs. Cal. The news was
telephoned to Marshal Brown. to see
what he intended to do. but under the
circumstances it was deemed not nee
essary to hold a coroner's inquest.