The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-12
VANDERBILT BODY
FOUND; GAUNTLET
PRESSES SEARCH
Vigorous Insistence of Amer
canShip building Agent Stirs
British to Search
Bodies of Babes
Tenderly Handled
Four Other Americans Bodies
One Bride of Three Weeks.
We're Found Yesterday.
Indignant at Capt. Turner

London. May fi--(Midnight).
"A dispatch just received from
Queenstown reports that tho
body Of Alfred Gwynne Wander
btlt has been found No details
are given.
II Is assumed that the body was
discovered in a search instituted to-
day by Webb Ware. secretary OF Mr..
Vanderbilt, and the authorities, who
were spurred to activity by Ameri-
cans and relatives of those who are
missing. The tug Pooizee. which
brought sixteen more bodies to
Queenstown this morning. WAS report
ed as returning along the south Of
Ireland coast at once, while the In
stance of the Bates family searching
for the body of Lndon Bates, Jr..
every foot OF the coast between
Queenstown and Kinsale was searched
this afternoon.
All idea that the New York mil
lionaire was alive was abandoned by
the family representative early today,
when he had an interview with DR..
Owen Kenan, OF Wilmington. N. c.,
who is still at hospital In Queens
town. DR.. Kenan said that he had
seen Mr.. Wander bilt leaning against
a door as the ship went down. and
he exclaimed at that instant:
They've got US now" At the time
DR.. Kenan says Mr. Vanderbilt wore
what seemed like q heavy ulster,
around which was adjusted life
belt.
GAunfzett Moves 20 Action.
Undoubtedly the vigorous protest
put up by Americans. among them II.
| J. Gauntlet, Of New York and New
port News. is responsible Tor the col
lection of the additional bodies. bring
ing the number Of those recovered up
Ito ITS. Mr.. Gauntlet, Webb Ware.
secretary TO Alfred Gwynne Wander
tbiit, Lndell Bates. brother of Lincoln
Bates, Jr.. and others. inasted that
tho authorities make n systematic
search for bodies. AZ q result of Mr..
Gauntlett's insistence. q tug sent out
by the admiralty returned from \ trip
down the coast today. bringing six
teen of the bodies. picked up hero and
there, affoat, ashore In the coves and
Iknlets and also brought word OF ten
bodies being at Baltimore. and two at
Queens End Land. Mr.. Vanderbilt
body was found later. They had been
picked up anoat or ashore, az the
others. In addition, Mr.. Bates OBJ
tanned consent 10 have the thirty
miles between Queenstown harbor and
Kinsale divided into districts of I'VE
niles, which are to be patrolied at
least once day.
The tug Pooisee took the bodies
! to Queenstown and . great crowd
greeted them. OF the sixteen, three
were babies, and instead OF bringing
them ashore wrapped and on stretch
| ers, sailors carried them in their
arms The dispatches say that the
/ little ones retained the freshness and
suppleness of life. rs II death had not
| been painful. As they came ashore
the officers on the pier saluted,
civilians lifted their hats. and women
| wept.
| Babe L. Identified.
T, 1t did not take long for nine Of the
sixteen to be Identified. Little Betty
| Bretherton was turned over to the
arms Of her mother. who surviveo
and she Ia the niece OF the bishop OF
cloyne. who heads the Roman Cath
oiic diocese Of Cork.
Mrs. Stewart Mason, of Boston. was
speedily picked out bride OF three
weeks on her honeymoon. Mrs. VIII
! ley. of Chicago, who is the mother OF
Mrs. Robert Thorn, was Identified by
E. Johnston Preston. Mr.. Preston was
unable to discover about the neck of
Mrs. Wiley a pearl necklace she wore
which was valued at $4,000. Mrs.
Condor was identified by papers found
in her pocket.
The Pooizee immediately after
| wards started for Baltimore. where ii
will obtain the other bodies, so soon