New-York tribune., 1907-08-19
DID HE SWIM OR RIDE!
Hoe Did CoIeU Get aboard the
Huron. 4nW1caV. 1sks ROChdzcdY

Not since the time, three years ago come next
Fourth of July that Harry Fernald the popcorn
man, sold six bags for a quarter mas focAa~ ~'
Park had such a sensation as has attendeo tiie us
apnearance of Edward II. ColeI the real estate
dealer who went swimming on Tuesday nl8ht anu
landed in Charleston, S C.. on SATURDAY Al 'it
time he walked off the steamship huron OF '"7
CLYDE Line and told story of having sWuh
twenty miles or before being picked up oy nSl-
errnen and then transferred by them to the Huron
as she ploughed ner way southwark. The mere fact
that the Huron's captain. purser ana other oi"'i
announced that Mr.. COleli boarded her at Fler 3D.
North River and that they thought MS swimming
story pipe has only added to the Zes' VI 'iie
present Rockaway Park discussion
of course Nj ColelIs sensational get away
would have been fitting climax Tor tank dFdii'd
He left behind him hanging to j pole "lthh sisnN
of his cottage at Tenth avenue and the boafdWi'ih
his bathrobc and beneath it, mute relics. lay his
sand slippers From Tuesday until Friday his fam
iIy and friends thought he had been drowned ont
on FriGay night they received a wireless-by mali
that told of his great swimming feat ana MS res
cue Meanwhile. bands of searchers We're h@iFo" :
ing the waves for his body. One of these VINO toid
his story for the first time yesterday. was Hans
Woblack, Ifesaver.
Vas" said Hans Il take beat und row all
aroundt. l bane tired Wen fnd big box OF lemons
floating Maybe dat bane hunch. sell en- LOT sax
dollar to Mister Curiey up al his hotel 1a-as.
Mister Colen must a-bane guide swimmer. bnt
couId moi swim so far already. Maybe he tax ms
swim by trolley car das steamship Maybe nut
gat- box of lemons
Mrs ColeH whose worry ceased with the receipt
of the telegram was sitting her porch with sew
eraI friends yesterday afternoon at point "hete
they could see the place once made greWsome by
the bathrobe and slippers. Nc. she said nave
heard nothing from my husband since that WIRE
less OF course I'm sure il was wireless, even
though the telegraph people tell the he"SPaPci'
they never handled it. His son Carl left mere FRI
dav night for Charleston. and suppose Il re
ceive word from them soon and that theJ Il come
back.
NO there was no family Cr business trouble that
could have caused my husband 10 go away oy 'he
steamship and pretend SWAN that far. OF course
believe he swan and was rescued and had an
exciting time, and don't care what the papers
think they know OF it. The story that he TOOK an
old suit of clothes and roll Of money is not true"
for I've been all through his things and nothing Is
missing
So this leaves the cottagers and boarders still i'll
derious doubt Did" asked one sweet little Har-
lem girl did Mr.. Colell really have that thrilling
escape or do You think he just left his bathrooe
there so as frghten his friends and see what
they'd saw about him and what the papers would
say OF his life after he had gone? But II so ro-
! mantle. anyhow
I-p to a late hour last night no word had come
from South to relieve the doubts or this young
Iadv and Others. But Hans Wohlack, tanned unti
he looked like LonGboat. the Indian runner lay on
tho sand under the summer moon and smoked
thoughtfully on cigars bought with the proceeds o'
that box of lemons.
TTs Telegraph - The Tribune
Charleston Aug. ls.-The Colells are now SUPPOSED
IN be on their way north, having left the Charles
ton Hotel this afternoon Edward toeit, when
asked to explain the denial Of his story oy 'i''
officers OF the Clyde liner said: We'll that - my
fault: I should have asked thcm 10 keep II quiet
or words to that effect. His son arrived to-day
and thev left here this afternoon together.