The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-25
EVERETT cITrS MYSTERY.
NO LIGHT YET THROWN ON THE
ALBRIGHT TRAGEDY.

Coroner's Jury Brings I'm Verdict of
Death by Unknown Causes in Both
Cuses-Albrecht's Conduct when
Put on Train Would Indicate That
He Was Demented-May Have
Killed the Boy and Then Drowned
HimseIf.
Everett City, Ca. March 24.-Al-
though the coroner's jury has held an
inquest over the bodies of Richard AL
brecht and his supposed son, whose
bodies were found in the back water
Of Altamaha river a few hundred yards
from this station, no light has been
thrown on the mysterious affair and
1t will probably never by known how
the two unfortunates lost their lives.
Coroner Jennings came up from
Brunswick this afternoon and the in
vestigation was resumed. There were
no eye witnesses to the drowning, and
the jury found it rather hard to make
up their verdict with the evidence they
had, and the following was rendered:
I'VE, the jury, find that the deceased,
Richard Albrecht, came to his death
from unknown causes" The same
verdict was rendered in the case of the
boy
Your correspondent this afternoon
visited the river where the two bodies
were found. 1t is a small body of
water about twenty feet wiae and not
over five feet deep. The bodies were
river. and it is therefore not believed
that Albrecht and his son fell from
the trestle or were knocked from the
track by a Seaboard train.
The most mysterious part about the
tragedy is how the boys neck was
broken. Even had he fallen from the
trestle it would have been almost i'm
possible for his neck to have been
broken, and there is not a scar about
him, which would indicate that he
was struck by a train or injured in
any way. His neck could have hardly
been broken by falling into the water
as the trestle is not more than five or
six feet above the water.
1t is not believed, however, that
the two fell from the trestle, as their
bodies were found some fifteen or
twenty feet from it, and could not
have floated this distance as a wire
fence is between the trestle and the
spot where the bodies were found
among physicians and others who saw
both the bodies that the boy has been
in the water longer than his father as
he was considerably more decomposed.
The expression on the little fellows
face and the position of his hands and
feet would indicate that he suffered
considerable pain, or was very much
frightened. 1t was at first thought
that the body of the father had not
been in the water more than forty
eight hours, but closer investigation
disclosed the fact that he was probably
drowned several days ago, or perhaps
on the night that he left Thalmann
walking in the direction of Savannah.
1t is true that they left Thalmann
late in the afternoon and reached the
trestle after dark and may have met
with an accident. However the entire
affair is very mysterious, and the true
cause of how they met death will never
be known.
1t is learned to-day from the conduc-
tor on the Seaboard train, which
brought Albrecht from Savannah, that
the man seemed insane. His ticket
read from Savannah to Brunswick, and
when he reached Thalmann. where a
change of cars is necessary, he refused
to get off the Seaboard train, and the
conductor was compelled to put him off
the Brunswick and Birmingham, then
endeavored to persuade the man
to get on his train, and
go to Brunswick, but he refused and
said he would walk back to Savannah.
The conductor held the train for some
fifteen or twenty minutes but finally
decided that the man was not going to
get on. After the train left the agent
at Thalmann tried to get the man to
e - -
not and, after blessing out every body
connected with the roads. took the boy
and left in the cold and rain, and MOTH
ing more was seen Of them until the
CHASTITY discovery Saturday.
Both the bodies were embalmed and
were shipped to New Brunswick to-
night over the Brunswick and Bir-
mingham and Seaboard Air Line.
Nothing has been heard from the wife
of AlbreCht since Saturday night