Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-06-28
SKENTLOOMISDEAD
Hamburg Report Says Body
Has Been Washed Ashore.
PLYMOUTH POLICE SAY DROWNED
Last Seen ut Midnight on Kaiser
wilhelm II. june 10 on Eve
of Ships Arrival at Eng
fish Port.

WASHINGTON, June %. A dis,
patch from Hamburg says it is report
ed there that the body of Kent j.
Loomis, who disappeared from the
| Kaiser Wilhelm III. shortly before her
arrival at Plymouth on June 20, has
been washed ashore near Cherbourg,
France.
A Bremen report says that all evil
dence available there shows that Kent
j. Loomis, brother of Assistant Sccre-
tary of State LOOMS, was last seer on
board the Kaiser Wilhelm ii. about
| midnight of June 10, when he went
on deck after the usual captains dim
ner had been given on the eve of the
vessels arrival.
Shortly afterward William II. 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 a passenger on the
Kaiser Wilhelm H., drew up q 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 a good
deal the last few days preceding his
disappearance. None Of the other wit
ncsses, however, remarked this.
Mr.. 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 lie was either drowned
or has met with foul play. The as
sistant secretary has denied very en-
phatically n number of reports emanat-
ing from Parkersburg, w. Va, the
home of his brother, which stated that
the family of Mr.. Kent LOOMS had re-
ceived word from him some days ago
that he was having trouble with Mr..
Ellis, with whomilhe vas travelling.
The state department has had adj
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 MI. Kent Loomis which was
| sent on to Paris. Word was received
| that Mr.. Ellis had offered to remain
on the scene for two weeks to assist in
the search for Mr.. 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
| Mr.. Loomis was drowned and that he
must have fallen overheard before the
vessel reached her anchorage. After
a 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 Oh the situation, and where 1t
vas at first believed that a few days
would solve the question of the where
about of the missing man the gloom
lest view is now taken.