Connecticut western news., 1914-07-23
DROWNED WHILE BATHING
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This word was telephoned to The News office and Clint Roraback immediately took party in his automobile, to the spot. They had hardly left the office however, when Henry Scutt and party, to whom Jake had told the story, came in, bringing the bicycle ahd the clothes worn by young Brown, which they had found near the wheel and almost at the waters edge on the land of Burt Lee.
 A large party, including MT. anC Mrs, Brown, the boys parents, had fol lowed the Clint Roraback auto, hence the parents were not in The News office when the clothing and wheel were brought ill, and it was not until the Schamerhorn party returned again to the fatal spot, that they learned of the discovery. They were nearly overcome by the intelligence and were persuaded by their brother, William L. Brown, and friends, to withdraw from the scene and await further developments.
 Boats were procured, and with grap. bling irons and dredging hooks willing hands proceeded to drag the river near the spot where the clothes were found. AS darkness came on, powerful sea-ch. lights were brought to the scene and the work proceeded practically all night, but no evidence of the body could be found, although some of the grapplers reported that their implements had en. countered some thing soft and yielding, but which could not be raised. It was enjoined upon the searchers that the body was naked and it was desirable that it be raised if possible with out mang- ling, which added to the difficulty and delicacy of the task.
 AS the all-night search had proved futile, MT. Brown decided to send al once to Bridgeport, for professional divers to come up, with their parapher. nalia. Through George c. Peet, of Bridgeport arrangements were. quickly made with Toole 6 Sunderlin, who are engaged in that work, and the diving party arrived on the noon train. They were hurried to the river, where a raft had already been prepared according to their telephoned instructions. and under the direction of George Sunderlin, of the firm, the diver, Andres Anderson, clad in his 150-pound diving suit, was let down into 20 feet of water.
 There was crowd of several hundred persons on the banks watching opera. tions and the lot was dotted with auto mobiles and wagons.
 The diver went down, the first time at just 3 o'clock, and remained II min. utes. His precise whereabouts, in the river, could be followed by the bubbles that rose to the surface from his helmet, into which air was constantly pumped by the men on the raft
 The second descent was of 20 min. utes duration, and resulted in no dis. covery. The position of the raft was then shifted to poiut about 100 feet down the stream, and the diver went down for the third time, working his way upstream almost to the point o1 beginning.
 The river at that place is a tangled mass of tree trunks and branches which had been inundated by the setback from the Power Company's dam, and the depth ranges from Is to 40 feet, it is said. There is really no shallow water "a couple of steps from the edge and the drop is sheer, many feet in depth into the tangle of branches beneath the surface, and it was the general theory that the body would be found caught and held down by these interlacine branches. The diver had been dowr almost 80 minutes, after his third de- scent, when he was seen, by the bubbles to be making his way hurriedly toward the ladder of the raft. He came uI just far enough to throw one end of 6 light rope, which he had carried around his waist, into the bow of one of the boats, and signaled the rowers to pull to shore when he should give the signal from below, and down he went again. He was followed, by means of the bub bles, to the spot from which he had seemed to hurry when he last came up and after short but anxious wait, the signal came in sharp jerks on the signal rope, and the boat started for the shore while the bubbles indicated that the diver was hastening back to the raft.
 Everybody knew then, that the search was over. They knew what was at the submerged end of the rope which the boat was carefully towing to land, and some of the women on the bank backed away, dreading to see the end of the anxious, search. The rope became en tangled in the submerged branches, anG the boat had to stop, while the mar who held the rope, Winthrop Wyckof maneuvered carefully, as John Nicoll, the oarsman, worked the boat ashore Once or twice, the body came iuto full view at the surface, as the passage wa' worked, tantalizingly but necessarily slow, and people gasped and some turn ed away.
 As the body was hauled ashore in the thicket, and laid out on land there wa. general rush which included many women, impelled by morbid curiosity to see the corpse, but they were kep back, as much as possible while Dr Camp, the medical examiner, viewed tn, l q I1-