The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-21
KINGSLEY'S BODY FOUND.

rlOhblnR III Harlem river at One
Hundred and Fifty.seventh street,
the body of Henry Baxter Kingsley
was picked up Wednesday night, and
the mystery of the disappearance
eight months ago of the wealthy club
member and cousin of Hugh II. Bax.
ter of No. 5sS Fifth avenue, was
cleared.
Richard Meehan, boatman, was
sitting on his seat when he saw the
body, which was clad in heavy
overcoat He called Policeman John
D. Stette of the West One Hundred
and Fifty-second street station, ana
when the body was towed ashore the
Identification was made by the cloth.
ing, jewelry, baggage checks and
general description, which correspond
ed with the data in the reward cir.
cular distributed broadcast Offering
$40, 600 for information leading to Mr..
Kingsley's whereabouts or for the re-
oovery of his body.
All his jewelry, his papers, $50 in
money and even his tobabcco and
match boxes were found just as he
had carried them the last time he was
seen by his cousin, Mr.. Baxter, who
has prosecuted the search TOR his
cousin unremittingly. In the wallet
containing the money we're three
membership cards of the New York
Athletic Club, all made out in the
name of Henry Baxter Kingsley.
Richard Meehsn, who discovered
Mr.. Kingsley's body, is the eighteen
years old son of Capt John Meehan
of the scavenger scow, Ella Jane,
which always docks at One Hundred
and Fifty-seventh street. 1t was
Capt. Meehan who dicovered the body
of Adolphe Openhym, the wealthy
importer Of No. 1862 Riverside Drive,
who committed suicide by jumping
from Washington bridge ON March 30,
1908 A reward of $500 was offered
for the recovery of Mr.. Openhym s
body and the captain collected it.
Mr.. Kingsley's body appeared ON the
surface alongside the scow at almost
the same spot Wednesday night.
On the body was black tie with
an opal scarf pin and in pocket was
second scarf pin with three dia-
monds There was three stone dia-
mond ring on one of the mans fingers
and plain gold ring marked OH. B.
K" In addition to the gun metal
watch, was a gold watch numbered
1874, which was the number on Mr..
Kingsley's watch. The gold watch
stopped at quarter to seven, the
other at twenty minutes past seven
O'Clock. In the pockets we're foun-
tain pen, silver pencil, two silver
peDknives, toboaco pouch and two
N. Y, N. H., 81 H. baggage checks
numbered 4402 and 40. At the Grand
Central station these numbers were
said to correspond with the baggage
left there by Mr.. Kingsley when he
disappeared.
Detectives have followed scores of
clews, thousands of dollars have been
spent and thousands of persons, slim.
ulated by the offer of 500 reward,
have aided in the search for traces of
Mr.. Kingsley since Saturday, Novem-
Der IA, last, when he parted with his
cousin, Hugh HI. Baxter, at the Grand
Central station in the afternoon and
announced that he would take train
for his home in Rutland at midnight.
Mr.. Kingsley was a bachelor. He had
been visiting his cousin, Mr.. Baxter,
at his country home in New Rochelle.
for several days, and the two with a
party of friends went to New York on
November IA last, all but Mr.. Kings.
ley to attend the Yale Princeton foot
ball game at New Haven.
He said he would leave for home at
midnight to relieve his brother in at
tendance on their father, who was i'll.
He checked his trunk at the New
Haven baggage room. He had with
him when his cousin left him a suit
case, hat box and a bundle of canes
and umbrellas. 1t was five days later,
when no trace of him had been dis
covered, that Alexander 7. Mason, a
lawyer and close friend of the family,
went to police headquarters and
general alarm was sent out for the
well-dressed, well educated man, who
had suddenly dropped completely out
of sight in New York.