Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-30
THINK MARSHALL
WAS BLOWN Off
BOAT IN STORM
Body of Missing Montclair Law
yer Found Float ng in Rari-
tan Bay.

The body of Elliott Marshall the
Montclair lawyer, whose body was
found floating in Raritan bay yester-
day by two fishermen, will be brought
home today. The funeral arrange
ments will not be made until the body
arrives Mrs. Marshall is Frustrated
at her home, IA Porter place.
The body of Mr.. Marshall, who had
been missing since last Thursday,
when he left his office at 40 Wall
street, New York, ostensibly for
home, was found floating by Bloom
Rogers, a Seabright fisherman, oppo-
site Carroll's Hotel. Port Monmouth,
seven miles below Atlantic High
lands. The body was taken TO Mel
vile Yards undertaking establish
ment, where it was identified by
Henry L. Pangborn, Mr.. Marshalfs
law partner and lifelong friend.
In Mr.. Marshall's pockets were
found a card bearing his name, an
envelope addressed to his father-in-
law, r. H. Eloyd-Jones, of st. Louis,
and a ticket on the Jersey Centrars
Sandy Hook steamboat route between
New York and Atlantic Highlands.
Coroner Fay ascribed the cause of
death to accidental drowning.
MIR. Marshalls friends believe he
was blown off a Sandy Hook boat
during the storm last Thursday.
William B. Dorman, of Doran &
Dana, lawyers, of As Wall street,
New York, who with his part
ner, Charles B. Dana, abandoned all
practise for six days to search for
his friend, said today:
Last Thursday afternoon was very
warm. I am convinced that Mr.. Mar
81, a h
lands to enjoy a sail down and back
to get away from the excessive heat.
He evidently caught the 4.30 o'clock
boat A violent storm came up, as
you will recall. l believe that on the
trip down Mr. Marshall was blown
off the boat and was drowned The
fact that the ticket was still in his
pocket indicates that he never ar
rived at the Highlands"
sThere is not the slightest doubt IN
my mind that Mr.. Marshall was
blown off the boat" said Walter ID.
Hampton, who served as chairman
of Mr. Marshall's committee of Mont
clair friends organized to prosecute
the search. ut is very possible that
he may have been standing on the
lower deck at the low gangway near
the bow of the boat when he was
swept overheard"
There was not a cent in money in
Mr. Marshalls clothes. His scarfpin
and his mothers gold wedding ring.
which he wore on the little finger
of his left hand, were missing and
his head was battered. There were
bruises on the right side of his face
These it was pointed out. might
have been caused by the body being
thrown against driftwood or piling
But his friends were unable to say
why he should have taken boat to
Atlantic Highlands with no money to
carry him elsewhere after landing.
The storm broke shortly after B
D. m A friend, Philip Rand, of
40 Nassau street, saw Mr.. Marshall
on a Hudson tube train that arrived
in Hoboken at 4:45 p. m.
Mr.. Marshall, who was with an
other man, walked toward the Lack
a.wanna station, as Mr.. Rand be-
1ieved to board a train for Mont
clair. Mr.. Rand said that Mr. Mar
shall called to him: Hello, Maurice"
He could not understand why the
lawyer called him Maurice" having
known him for years.
In support Of the theory that Mr.
Marshall was out of his mind, 1t was
recalled that he went to DR.. Sahler's
sanitarium in Kingston, N. Y, sew
eral years ago, and that DR.. Sahler
bordering on melancholia. When a
woman was drawned In Esopus Creek
Mr. Marshall remarked:
There's one poor soul who is free
from suffering"
The death of his child soon after
its birth six weeks ago, affected him
greatly
Mr. Marshall left home in the morn
ing after telling his wife he would
g. Il
lunched at Delmonico's downtown
and talked over plans for the rebuild
ing of the First Congregational
Church in Montclair which was burn
ed last March. He also was plan
ming to go on a short vacation trip
with his wife.
AS the body had been in the water
several days Identification could not
be made by the features The initials
"E. NJ" in the shirt, the tailor's label
in the coat, initiated gold cuff but
tons and a safe deposit key revealed
that the body was that of Mr. Mar
shall
Mr.. Marshall was born in Jersey
City forty-four years ago. He was
valedietorian of the class of 'sS, Has
brouck Institute. He was graduated
frt n Yale University in 1892 al from
the New York Law School. He was
Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Delta
Phi man. He was a member of the
Montclair Club, an officer of the
Montclair Art Association; vice-presi-
dent of the Whittier Settlement
House in Jersey City and a trustee of
the First Congregational Church of
Montclair. He was devoted to chari-
table work and carried on a semi
philanthropic work of building model
homes for workingmen.