The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-05
SEA GIVES UP BODY
OF AVIATOR JEWEL
Found Yesterday at Ed gcmcrc,
l.. l., Without Head.
Legs or Arms.
IDENTIFIED BY CLOTHING
Missing Since October 10. When
He Started to Fly to
Staten Island.

The waves that troubled the sea YES
terday washed to shore at Edgemcrc.
l.. !. mans trunk. armlcss, legless.
headless. II was washing back and forth
with the ebb and flow of the waves when
laborcr passed that way. 500 feet from
Neptune avenue. and saw it, He called
policeman. The body was taken to
Truddens morcuc.
Although II is nearly three months
ago. October 10. 1918. when a young
aviator. Albert J. Jewel started to ny
from Hampstead Plains, l.. l.. to partake
in an aviation meet on Staten Island. no
one doubtless has forgotten the Incident.
for Jewel never was seen or heard of
again.
Never again. that is. till Yesterday. for
the mans trunk found on the beach
probably was all that Is left OF Jewel.
The police have declined 80 far to
believe that "A positiv" identification has
been established. but the ses worn body
was Jewels to the best belief of his
uncle. william H. Carey; his widow. Mrs.
Jewel, and q. II. La Ponte, II friend who
knew him well.
Ceaseless swishing back and fourth nj
the oceans bottom had worn away all
but few shreds of clothing. and there
was nothing on the trunk save one side
of a woollen undershirt and paper vest.
Identified by Vest.
II is the paper vest that seems 10
identify the body beyond doubt. for 1t is
the make that aviators wear when they
are flying ON cold day or into attitudes
where the temperature IL always low.
Furthermore the stitching. very close to-
gether, corresponds to the stitching in
the vest which la Pointe saw Jewel put
on early in the morning OF October IL.
"W ma, do you think Of this La Pointer
asked Jewel slipping into the thing. TT :
new, brand new, and great for day
like this when the winds are bowling"
That is why LA Pointe gave such close
attention to the garment And the fact
that the two men stood in Jewels hangar
while the latter dressed IL the reason why
La Pointc chances to remember that ne
wore as well a heavy gray woollen under
shirt, which exactly fits the appearance
and texture Of the bit OF shirt still clinsing
To the body.
What happened to Jewel? No one will
ever know. But the terrible fact that his
trunk hoated at last to shore with neither
arms. nor legs. nor head. indicates that
there was an accident to his machine be-
fore II fen or that fish dismembered the
body GU; in the Atlantic.
Flew in Face Of . Gale.
Mr.. Carey recalled that Jewel left
Hampstead Plains and few into the teeth
of n gale that was blowing a mad pace on
earth and supposedly some sixty miles a
few hundred feet from the ground. He
believes that this wind gradually got the
best of Jewel. that II blew him further
and further out to sea, and that finally
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loosed the straps that secured him, reached
out to right some piece OF disordered ma
chinery, was lifted bodily from his seat
and hurled into the revolving propeller.
Under the circumstances possibly that
would have been the kindest death for the
young aviator. Certainly II must have
been instantaneous.
Mrs Jewel was found yesterday at the
home of her uncle, Mr.. Carey, at Rich
mond Hin. Staten Island. and through him
gave THE SUN a description Of the clothes
in which her husband was dressed The
paper vest she described cOrresponded with
the one found on the body with it's many
stitches and white cloth lining.
There is one difference--that the vest
Jewel wore was a light brown while the
one on the body was grayish sea color
But the people al Edgemere who are ac-
Gust omed to seeing bodies that have been
In the OCEAN long time say that all ma
teTldiS Oh u iHut CUNT TAKE
the shade OF the sea.
Besides tne Sest Jewel wore a khaki
aviator's suit and beneath that a heavy
Norfolk suit. In addition he had on a
gray sweater vest. tho woollen shirt al
iuded to and a white union suit. OF all
these clothes there was not a shred Of
anything but tbe vest and woollen shirt
left.
When ne disappeared Jewel was on his
way 10 the Oakwood Heights Aerodrome
on Staten Island, where "a meet was to be
held in the afternoon. He was entered In
several OF the events. including a race
around Manhattan.
That evening. when nothing had been
heard OF him, a search was started. II
was easily surmsed that the strong wind
had blown him TO sea and all the light
houses along the Long Island and Jersey
shores were notified. As a further pre-
caution the same thing was done in the
Sound.
For many days afterward not a
steamer left New York but that Its cap
tain had been forewarned to keep a look
out for the aeroplane or the body Of the
aviator.