Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-16
BODY OF CEILINGS
IS WASHED ASHORE
Found Bound and Wounded
Where Wife Declares Two
Pirates Attacked Them.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HUNTINGTON STATION. N. Y,
September 16.-The body of Benjamin
Ceilings was washed ashore today,
bound hand and foot as his wife had
said he was when thrown from their
cruiser, but still District Attorney Alex
ander Blue refused to accept her story.
He acknowledged, however, that Mrs.
Ceilings might believe it to be true.
The story she tells in its entirety is
not the true story. believe" he said,
although she may believe it to be-"
Blue called especial attention to the
fact that Mrs. Ceilings story offers no
explanation for the fact, established ac-
cording to Blue by injuries found on
Ceilings body. that there was a pro-
longed and violent struggle before he
was finally Suhdued and trussed I'm.
The body noated to the surface at
Lloyd's Neck, Long Island at $40
O'Clock this morning. His hands and
feet were boun5. There was a hole in
his head, and his throat was cut.
Ceilings body foated to the surface
at the exact spot where four boatmen
attended. with Ceilings 5-year-old
daughter Barbara aboard.
Mrs. Ceilings. who for six days had
been questioned about the mysterious
disappearance of her husband, said he
had been tossed into the waters by
two strange men who boarded the Col
lings yacht
Two Men Sought.
An immediate general alarm was sent
out for two men, one about so years of
age, the other a youth Of Is who, Mrs
Ceilings said, had thrown her husband
into the water. The finding Of the
body evidently clinched the story which
she had told authorities through days
of constant cuizzing.
The Ceilings tragedy was revealed
last Thursday morning when Mrs. Col
lngs was found rnarooned on motor
boat in Oyster Bay, clad only in a thin
house dress, but protected from the
chill Of dawn by four blankets.
Says She Was Abducted.
She told an amazing story Of piracy.
Late Wednesday night, she said, two
men in a canoe boarded the anchored
Ceilings cabin cruiser Penguin, bound
her husband and threw him overheard,
abducted her and abandoned 5-year-
old Barbara Ceilings on the Penguin.
Barbara was found by party Of yachts
men who saw the Penguin drifting
without lights.
Mrs. Ceilings has twice re-enacted
the scene she says took place on. the
Penguin and has over and over again
told her story to investigators OF both
Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
Describes Two Pirates"
Mrs. Ceilings said the pirates" were
an elderly man and a youth. The
elder man. she said, offered her in
dignities in the canoe In which she
was taken from the Penguin, which,
she said, she left without a struggle
in the belief that by so doing she
would draw the men away from her
little daughter.
She first told police that when the
men appeared she heard them of1er
her husband 500 to take wounded
man to the Connecticut shore. Col
linoe refused, she said. and was then
attacked. Later she expressed the be-
lief that the talk Of a wounded man
was a rlise as there was no one In
! the canoe but the two assailants wnen
! she was placed in 1t.
! The men gave her four blankets VIII
which to keep warm, she said. One OF
/ them was found 10 be marked with the
name of the Hotel Charles, in Spring
! field. Mass But this clue led to moth
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