Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-17
Remains of Husband and
Wife Will Be Brought
To This City
TO BE INFERRED HERE
Supposed Mrs. Supplee Fell In
to River and Husband Plunged in
After Her

The bodies of DR.. Eugene d. Sup
plee and his wife, Mrs. Florence Lou
Use Gore Supplee, who were drowned
while making the trip from Rich
mond to City Point, Va, in canoe
on April End. will be brought to AL
andria tomorrow morning and taken
to the undertaking establishment of
Benedict Wheatley. A double funeral
will in all probability take place from
there tomorrow afternoon and bur-
ial will be in Bethel Cemetery. Dr..
Supplee was Il son of Joseph E.
Supplee, who was the first mayor of
the town of Potomac, Alexandria
county, eight years ago. Mr.. Supplee
is now living in Washington at 81
A street, northeast, He is an employc
of the Washington Star. DR.. Supplee
spent his boy hood in Alexandria
county and left there to enter col
lege.
Mrs. Supplee who was a native Of
Washington, was daughter of Mrs.
Annie Gore, ia Third street, north
east. Her body was recovered yes
terday afternoon by employees of the
Du Pont Powder Company, floating
in the river, several miles below the
point where the accident occurred.
DR.. Supplies body was recovered a
week ago and has been held in Rich
mon since that time.
The body of Mrs. Supplee. was
found floating in the Appomattox
River off City Point, yesterday af-
ternoon. A comparison between DR..
Supplies watch and the time the
body was discovered yesterday by J
A. Croy, C.. F. Myers and w. R.
Simpson, of the Du Pont force, show
ed that the body had been in the wat
er exactly two weeks with the eycep-
ton Of two and one-half hours.
Croy and his friends were boating
on the river and saw the object, which
at first appeared to be log, floating
near them. They approached closer
to it, and recognized in it the part
tally nude body of woman. Simp-
son secured it with rope, and the
body was towed to the City Point
wharf. Here Coroner J. H. Hargrave
viewed it and determined that it was
the body of Mrs. Supple.
Decomposition was well advanced,
it is said, and it is feared that it may
be impossible to embalm the body.
However, nothing was noticed yester-
day about the body which would lead
Coroner Hargrave to believe Mrs.
Supplee had been the victim of foul
play.
Mrs. Supplee and her husband, a
stalwart young man Of less than
thirty and we'll known as an expert
swimmer and oarsman, left Richmond
Sunday morning, !.pril 2, for the
canoe trip to City Point, where the
physician was employed in the Du
Pont plant. DR.. Supplee had recently
purchased 16-foot canvas canoe,
and was making his initial trip in it.
One of the most plausible explana-
tions of the manner in which the ac-
cident occurred was offered yesterday
by J. E. Soenzo, manager of the
Curles Neck Farm, and one of the
men who has given considerable time
to assist the searchers in recovering
the bodies. Mr.. Colcnzo is of the
opinion that the long trip down the
river in the unsteady canoe, accen,
tuated by the tossing of the frail
craft and the dazzling waves of the
rough water, caused Mrs. Supplee
to become dizzy, the fact that marks
were found on the canoe edges where
she had gripped the gunwales so fer,
cely that the perspiration had remov
ed portions of the paint is taken a:
evidence of her uncertainty and per
haps of her fear for the safety o.
herself and her husband.
Mr.. Colenzo thinks it possible tha
the dizziness became so great as tt
cause Mrs. Supplee to grow faint ane
to topple out of the canoe into th'
river, the canoe Shipping a quantit!
of water as it careened when she fel