Sad Death of a Confirmed Stowaway
[PBB VKITED PBXSB ASSOCUTIOir.] : €HBISTCBrBC9I^ MajlS. The s.s. Coptic, which kftl^tteltou for London yesterday morning, had proceeded a few miles on her way, when a stowaway was- discovered n a dying condition between the boilers. He was promptly released an& attended to by the shi^s surgeon, bjit expired in a few minutes; The eap* tain at .first thought of burying the body at sea, and it wassewn in cawrat for that purpose. He afterwaros altered his mind, and returned teethe mouth of the -harbour, where^ihe corpse was put on board the stean4 tug and taken to Lytt«lton, whil<k,^ie Coptic proceeded on her; voyage. "3Che deceased, who is supposed a Swiss named Jacques 4 .; ajrired as a stowaway , some t ttnmths «gjarin the 1 Bimutaka frpmt^ Ol^. »4 Wood Hope, where it is said he has^-|gf» and four children. .- ^ "ti
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 139, 4 May 1886, Page 2
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145Sad Death of a Confirmed Stowaway Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 139, 4 May 1886, Page 2
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