Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-15
BODY Of c. ". Hammond
Of Sidney Recovered.
Union Meeting Planned TO Help
laymen's Movement.
MI Games 1oday...Sunday Ser.
yIces...0ther Local Items.

The body of Charles w. Hammond,
drowned at Sidney April /. while try
inc to rescue his companion, Archie
Reyrolds, who had broken through the
TO. was recovered Friday afternoon at
browns cove, Chelsea, about a mile
aad half north of Gardiner. The body
vas very badly decomposed, and after
hing identified at the undertaking
rnpms of Preble & Keene. was at once
,aken to the vault at Oak Grove ceme-
,ery, upon the orders of Coroner
Frank f. Andrews, to await the in
tructions of relatives. An inquest was
deemed unnecessary.
The body was found at about 2.30
o'clock by V. L. Wentworth of Chelsea,
sho was cutting wood on the bank of
thu river. He saw an object which APP
reared to be the body of a man partly
aaoat only few feet from the shore
4 Mr.. Wentworth had noticed an adver-
isement which has appeared in the
Kenrebec Journal for some time rela-
tive to such a body. and as his work
/ takes him on and about the river, he
has kept sharp lookout. He fastened
\ small rope to the body to prevent its
aoating away. and hurrying to the
nearest telephone. called up the Gar
diner police station. The call was an
swered by Judge Larrabce, who sent
/ out for Coroner Frank f.. Andrews, and
| the latter went to the scene with w. L.
TOzcr AS soon as the coroner arrived
he sent for the undertaken and the
| kuJ,x t,N hi nj
| The body was that of man about ~
I years OF age and six feet in height. The
face was unrecogniZable; the hand!
white from the action of the water
Z Tho body was dressed in a striped cot
ton shirt and black wooden vest. thu
coat being missing; patched woolei
trousers, felt boots ana lumbcrmani
rubbcrs. He was smooth faced, some
what bald. and had good teeth.
! In the pockets of the clothing wer
found tax receipt of the town o
Sidney to Charles w. Hammond fo
: the wear 1907. hay scale weighing re
ceipt. small black pocketbook con
tanning a 81 bill. a pocketful of matche
and a p"cketful of cloves. In an insid
vest pocket was found a letter bearin
date of March 90. 1909 signed You
wife, Edith" 1t mentioned bushes
and family matters which leave n
doubt that the body was that {
Charles w. Hammond of Sidney.
Hammond came to his death early |
Ithe evening of Thursday, April /. 1870!
He was employed at the time at ia
|ker's sawynill at Riverside. and i'm com
Ipany with Archie Reynolds, who wa
also employed at the mill. he wa
crossing the k"nncbcc river at tn
' close of the days work. Reynold
| broke through the ice. and with NJ
thought rf his own danger .Hammont
! at once went to the rescue. The fac
that the body was found minus thu
coat is evidence that Hammond tool
loft his coat as he FASTENED to the as
sstance of Reynolds. Hammond him
self broke through the ice and floate6
away in the swift current. The brothe
Of Reynolds was on the shore and saw
tie accident He hurried to the spo
and pulled his brother out of the ic,
water hut Hammond had in the mean
time disappeared.
Charles ". Hammond was the oldes'
soh of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon f. Ham
3 mond of Sidney. The aged parents, q
brother, sister. widow and four chill
dren survive