Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-05-09
OVER $4,000 ON
BODY OF AST0R
Watch Stopped at 3:20-Practi.
cally All Others at BIO
Struggled Diamonds Found.

Halifax. Max 2-Hope still flu,.ers IN
the hearts OF those who remain here
seeking to Identify as their dead the nod-
les brought from the scene of the Titan
ac's wreck by the cable steamer Mackay
Bennett.
In money belt which Col. John Jacob
Astor wore were two thousand dollars in
gold and besides this sum he had
securities and Jewery which those on the
Mackay-Bennett estimated to be worth
from $4,000 to $4,000. Gerald Ross, cleo
trician on the Mackay- Bennett, said:
i saw the recovery of Colonel Asfor' )
body. Like the others 1t was floating
buoyed by life belt. Both arms extend
ed upwards. The face was swollen. one
Jaw was injured. His body was clothed
an a business suit and tan shoes HIS
watch, costly thing, studded with dia-
monds. was dangling from his pocket It
had stopped at 800. Practically all the
other watches on bodies we recovered
had stopped ut 2:10. His watch chain
was of platinum and were the setting
of the rings he wore"
Ross says that. by some remarkable
coincidence, every male body recovered
was floating face down and every female
face up. The heads Of all were raised
Ross corroborated the only undertaken
on the cable ship in the statement that
many of the bodies buried at sea were
recognizable and well preserved.
SAW DESTROYING ICEBERG.
The Mackay- BENEFITS crew saw the
iceberg which sent the Titanic to her
doom. They say the berg was very
long," but not more than so feet of It
projected from the water. There was a
Jagged hole in its side in which the cable
ship could have berthed
THE Titanic gave the berg a hard
bump" said Ross. "All kinds Of wreck
age was floating around the berg. We
picked up a deck chair or two as SOU
venrs.
Captain 1arnder felt rs badly as any
one to be obliged to put any bodies back
Into the sea- but what was he to do when
we were overcrowded and lacked accom-
anodations?
I'VE came across a diamond smuggler
a Swede. travelling In the Storage. He
was among the 115 consigned to ocean
graves. felt a peculiar hard lump in the
back of his coat. I told my worliinate
and we ripped the lining and found a half
dozen diamonds sewn up there. This man
was not among those identified and bur-
aed. The diamonds were turned over to
the purser with other valuables taken
from the unidentified bodies. all placed In
the custody of the White Star line.
EFFECTS CAREFULLY PRESERVED.
1.-THE property taken from unidentified
persons were placed in little white bags
bearing numbers similar to the body
label. The steamship company undoubt-
edly will have considerable miscellaneous
property for which no heirs can ever APP
a,ly Take the diamonds, for instance.
There can be no claimant for them.
surely.
MANY Of the women were in evening
gowns We picked up one young married
couple Mr.. and Mrs a. Robins. the only
husband and wife found. She wore a
beautiful low-neck dress. and around her
neck was a costly string of pearls"
A flaxen-hared little boy. with face
like a cherub, remains unidentified. He
seemed to be sleeping. His widow has
identified Stanley II. Fox's body and took
charge of II.
No trace of jacques Futrelle. the move
list, was found, unless his body has been
picked up by the Nina Nor has any
trace of Samuel Guggenheim been
found.
WILLIAM WIDENER STARTS HOME.
William NJ. Widener and his friends.
who had been here nearly a week in
their private car. left at eight O'Clock
last evening. Mr. Widener went home
In a doubtful state Of mind as to whether
4, was the body of his father. George
u. Wdener of Philadelphia. which was
buried at sea. as officially listed, or his
fathers valet. Edward Heating.
"F'rom the descriptions which was
able to obtain from the crew of the
lIackay- Bennett" said Mr.. Widener. II
Pm inclined to think it was the body of
the valet and that fathers body has not
been found. Heating may have had some
of fathers clothing on. The body buried
differs from fathers build. and, further
more, buttonhook was found In a poe
ket, something Heating always had with
him
A reward of 1000 was yesterday posted
by Samuel II. Wallack of New York, for
the recovery of the body Of Henry b.
1iarris. the theatrical manager. of which
nothing has been heard to date.
Major Blanton Winshp. U. s. A.. said
le had seen the unidentified dead. and
had given up all hope Of finding Major
quits body.
1T is especially noticeable that there
were two Butts among the names of
those recovered he said. but I have
made careful inquiry. and neither Of
them appears to have been Major Butt.
There is nothing l can do but walt for
the Nina"
BODIES WIDELY SCATTERED.
Confirming predictions that few more
bodies would be added to the Minia's
nuota. the following message from her.
sent via Cape Race. was received here
yesterday:
Tuesday-Northerly gale misty. Found
body w. T. King. purser's assistant, be-
ing 40 miles east of that found yesterday.
showing how widely bodies are scattered
and how difficult to find with no reports
from passing steamers to help mo. Ice
bergs numerous as far south as 1870 In
1880"