Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-03-12
MYSTERY SURROUNDS
FATE OF ()FFGALS
Party OF Three, Leaving Here
BY Boat Yesterday For Clai-
borne, Has Disappeared
WERE INSPECTING FERRY
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information reached Cover.
nor HarringtOn's office this alter
noon that the Missing nen had
been picked up Iii the middle Of
the bay at lIsSO this morning,
after having been Afioal III their
boa all night. Engine trouble
Wrs assigned RS the cause for the
failure to return to annapolis
last night.
Il curtain Of mystery settled down
tciay over tile disappearance Of En-
Egineer Peret of the State Roads COM
mission, Baltimore. and G. w Harri-
son and Hampton %. Mepham, Of New
York city, promoters Of the Annap-
oils claiborne ferry The three men
LEFT here late yesterday afternoon, In
stafe-owned gasoline boat for Clai-
1 Eorne. left that place last night about
\ s o'clock on the return trip. and noth-
1 ing has been seen or heard OF them
i since that time
Attention Of state officials was first
called to the fact that the men had not
returned early this morning when
/ Mrs. Peret telephoned from Baltimore
| to inquire why her husband had not
returned to his home. She said he
| had telephoned her from Claiborne
lats night that he expected to reach
home about Ii o'clock and she had
received no further word from him.
Governor Orders search
( An investigation was started irn-
mediately, and 1t developed that the
boat III which the three lefta had not
returned 10 Annapolis during the
/ night. Word was flashed from the ex-
/ ecutiye ONCE here AT once to Clai-
borne. ordering out state boat to
search for the missing craft. and an
other was ordered to proceed from
Annapolis AT / o'clock this after-
MON, no word had been received from
tha searching parties combing the
Severn river and the Chesapeake
Fear was expressed by officials this
afternoon. that the boat might have
been run down or met with an acci-
dent. and gone down with all three
men, together with the members ot
the crew
While some alarm vas manifested
4 about the governors ONCE ii the early
hours this morning, II vas thought
that me party might have encountered
knngine trouble, and we're merely de-
Iayed, but as the day wore on and no
I trace Of them could be found by
sesrchIng parties more and more con-
cern was expressed
sfifT tale Mas Blowing
perot Harrison and Hepburn. left
Annapolis on the boat about 5 O'clock
last evening for Claiborne where they
we're going to inspect the harbor with
4 view Of determining upon location
for the new dock at that place where
/ the ferry boat, which Will ply be-
tween this city and Claiborne. will
I land her passengers. at the time they
il left here the water was choppy, and
a stir gale was sweeping
i Lei Claiborne last Wight
/ w. Fl. Killian. OF Baltimore. chair-
man of the Conservation committee,
I told the men that they had better
postpone their trip because of the
weather conditions, but they were
anxious 10 get to Claiborne, and EN-
1 barked
when informed by Gov Harrington
this morning that the boat had not
1 returned here, Mr.. KIlIian said he
thought the party had encountered
trouble with the gasoline engine, and
that they had probably spent the night
1 III the open on the bay waiting for
daylight when they would be picked
up
KilIian said the boat WAS q stannch
one. and expressed the belief that It
had not gone down, although he adj
1 mitted II was possible.
IT is known that the boat ls5ft clai-
borne last night, word having been
received to that effect here today
kiyer Men Help lii Search
BY this afternoon news Of the bozt's
disappearance had spread among the
river men and fisher folk. and many
crafts are plying between Annapolis
4 and Claiborne in an effort to md some
trace of the party.
y The idea was advanced this m0rning
that the bay became 80 choppy the
boat might have been headed Id be-
hind Kent Island for shelter, but this
was exploded, when. with the waters
again calm. still nothing could be
learned oE the party.
AT the governors once today II
was said that Mrs PerOt had collapsed
a when informed that tie boat had not