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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 420, 6 August 1908, Page 4

DEAD MAN SAILS BACK TO PORT. ! A weird sea story, strongly re- ' miniscent of one of Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of mystery, was reported from Plymouth recently. The little fishing boat, Fear Not, went out to the Eddystone whiting grounds. In her were William Rowe, her owner, aged about 60, and his son, a lad of about 17. About 4 o’clock in the afternoon the boat returned to Sutton Harbour, in the Cattewater. Rowe sat upright upon a thwart, with his arms folded, gazing out beyond the bows. His son leaned upon the tiller steering the boat. The wind was light and she came along slowly. The fishermen upon the pierhead hailed the two men to know what sort of a catch they had aboard, but received no answer. Neither of the figures stirred in the leas t. This attracted some curiosity, and a boat went alongide the little smack. Then a startling discovery was made. Lowe was dead, and his son appeared quite unconscious of his surroundings, like a man in a trance. Tatar on he was able to explain the mystery to some extent. He said that his father hove up the anchor, and then dropped back into the sitting posture in which he was found, and never spoke nor stirred again. Failure of the heart’s action, brought about by heavy exertion in the excessive heat was the cause of death. When the son realised that his father had expired, he said he felt like one in a dream, and he only remembers blankly steering the boat for Plymouth.

A waiter at Auckland, named James Robinson, after getting a friend to identifybim, obtained a bottle of prussic acid from a chemist, stating he wished to poison a dog. On reaching the street Robinson declared in a dramatic fashion he was going to take the poison. He uncorked the bottle and swallowed a portion of the contents. His companions dashed the bottle out of his hands and when he fell down carried him to the nearest chemist’s where an emetic was administered. Robinson is now in the hospital, a fatal result having been averted. “ For years past,” says Mrs Catherine Weeks, Bowral, N.S.W., “ I have made a point to always keep Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy in my home. Just as soon an any member of my family show symptoms of a cough or cold, I give them a dose which invariably checks the complaint." For W. J. Gardner, grocer. — Advt,