Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-28
ISKENTLOOMISDEAD?
Hamburg Report Says Body Has Been Washed Ashore.
PLYMOUTH POLICE SAY DROWNET
Last Seen at Midnight on Kaiser Wilhelm III. June 10 on Eve
 of ships Arrival at Eng fish Port.

WASHINGTON, June 2s. U A dis patch from Hamburg says it is report ed there that the body of Kent J Loomis, who disappeared from tho Kaiser Wilhelm IT. shortly before heI arrival at Plymouth on June 20 has been washed ashore near Cherbourg France
 A Bremen report says that all evi dence available there shows that Kent J. Loomis, brother of Assistant Secre. tary of State Loomis, was last seen on board the Kaiser Wilhelm II. about midnight of June 19, when he went on deck after the usual captains din ner had been given on the eve of the vessels arrival
 Shortly afterward William H. Ellis, Loomis' companion, searched for Loo. mis, but he was unable to find him. The captain and the head steward. both of whom knew Loomis well, were standing at the gangway as the pas sengers landed at Plymouth, and they both declare positively that Loomis did not land.
 Government Councillor Mueller of Berlin, who was passenger on the Kaiser Wilhelm IT., drew up report of the affair, according to which Ellis deposed that Loomis often sat in a reckless fashion close to the rail despite repeated warnings.
 Ellis also said LOomis drank good deal the last few days preceding his disappearance None of the other wit Iz ..4-. 4l1l
 MT. Loomis, the assistant secretary of state, has had nothing whatsoever to confirm or contradict the rumor that the body of his brother, Kent J. Loo mis, has been washed ashore on the French coast, and in spite of the ener- getic efforts of the combined foreign and consular service of the state de- partment not the slightest clew has yet been obtained with reference to the mysterious disappearance. The fact that nothing has been heard of the lost man is tending to confirm the fears of his family that he was either drowned or has met with foul play The as- sistant secretary has denied very em- phatically a number of reports emanat- ing from Parkersburg, W. Va, the home of his brother, which stated that the family of Mr. Kent Loomis had re- ceived word from him some days ago that he was having trouble with MT. Ellis, with whom he was travelling.
 The state department has had ad- vices of the sailing of Mr. Ellis from France for Djiboutil, where he com mences his overland journey to Abys- sinia's capital with the commercial treaty which he is to deliver to King Menelek. This treaty was in the lug gage of MT Kent Loomis which was sent on to Paris. Word was received that Mir. Ellis had offered to remain on the scene for two weeks to assist in the search for MT. Loomis and had offered to have one of his party return to Plymouth to aid the authorities there, but it was thought that no such assistance would avail in the search.
 The police of Plymouth now say that MT. Loomis was Ggowned and that he must have fallen overheard before the vessel reached her anchorage After Q most exhaustive search and the in vestigation of every clew they are con- fident that he did not land at Plymouth.
 Neither in London nor Plymouth has anything developed throwing the slight est light on the situation, and where it was at first believed that few days would solve the question of the where about of the missing man the gloom fest view is now taken