The Washington herald., 1909-04-26
POTOMAC gives UP
BODY or WALLIS
Found Several Miles from
that Of Companion.
LEFT BY RECEDING WATER
Keeper of Lock on Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Discovers Body Cast
High on Rock, and Police Are
NOtihed-MOther of Drowned Youth
Near Collapse at News.

| Lying face downward on 4 fat rock
in the Potomac River above Cabin John
Bridge, tire body oe a young man. be-
lieved 20 be that Of Robert Wallis. six
teen years old. was found shortly before
Is O'Clock yesterday afternoon. The body
was washed on the rock by the high wa
ter Of The river, and left when the water
receded.
J. T. Reed. keeper Of Lock 40. :. on
/ The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. discov-
cred the body while rowing near the
Maryland shore 0f the river. He rowed
out 20 The rock. and afler a careful ex-
animation decided the body was that OF
young Wallis, VINO was drowned on De
cember 6 last. while canoeing near Stub
blefeld Falls, with Joseph H. Painter.
thirty years old, botaalst az the Na-
tionsl Museum. who lived at 753 Girard'
street northwest
The body o. Painter was found on
april IS last. near Fletcher's boathouse.
several miles below the point where the
body Of Wallis was folad.
Mother, Notified. Near Collapse.
Reed rowed 20 shore, after securing the
body to a rock with a rope. and hailed
Reginald Rutherford, OF 81 French street
northwest and Il. G. Boss. OF 100 FIf-
teenth street northwest. who were walk
ing on road near the canal Ruther-
ford and Boss said they we're going 70
Washington, and consented 10 notify the
police OF the discovery.
Arriving tn the city about 10 O'Clock
last night. Rutherford and Boss notified
Desk Sergt Simpson, Of the First pre-
cinct. Mrs Wallis, widowed mother OF
the drowned lad. was notified al her
home. f2lS Eleventh street northwest.
she nearly collapsed when the news WAS
broken 10 her over q telephone, and
physician was summoned 20 attend the
woman
Hugh T. Wallis. prOpTietor-of a lunch
room at 6l7 Twelfth street northwest
uncle Of the missing boy. viii depart early
this morning by automobile for the place
where the body was found He believes
Re can identify the body, which is badly
decompOsed. by the clothing the boy wore
when he left home. Mr.. Wallis was given
a brief description of the wearing an
parel on the body. and said he thinks II
Is that OF his nephew.
Painter and Wallis had been friends
foT years. Wallis was q student AZ the
Bliss Electrical School. and Painter was
employed ar the National Museum. Ro.h
were well known in Washington. and had
a large circle OF friends IA the city.
Met Death Last December.
Painter vas member Of the Biological
Field Club and owned canoe which he
kept IN q boathouse a few miles above
Cabin John On Sunday morning.
December s. the man and boy left Wash
ington FOR the boathouse. intending 10
paddle Up the river They were seen Ieav-
Ing the bosthOuse and proceeding towsrd
Stubblefeld Falls shortly before noon
Late in the afternoon a canoe. hat, coat
and a paddle were seen floating down the
river toward Washington.
The river was dragged for weeks. and
ish nets were stretched from bank 10 /
bank in an effort 10 find the bodies. but
nc trace OF the missing man and bov wasi
found until April Is, when two fisher I
men found the body OF Painter. II was
Identified at the District morgue by reIa-
tives OF the deceased man.
4 reward was offered for the recovery
Of the bodies. and the fishermen on the
Upper Potomac had been viglant since
The river rose