DEATH AT THE HELM.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1835, 9 June 1874, Page 3

DEATH AT THE HELM.

Tax Detroit Free Press says:-On Sunday morning, December 14, two farmers. , and their: families who; weredriven to ] Alalden to attend church, when about;.. right miles'belowi or- ea»t'of J the't'off"d,';' saw a ship's yawl on the Jake heading toward the beach about a half-aiile away. ; They could plainly make out. a mauii. the stern sheets stepring'the.b.oat withM oar, and although there were no vessels in sight the morhing was so'pleasant and tho sea so smootli, that it tho man had put out from shore tp pick up something, and but little attention was paid to the yawl Passing t,b.Q same.spqfc ■» on their ro.turn, the men hard on the beach, and the man aiitjng stiff and motionless in her steru, lifeless, and frozen hard as a rpck..; :fle;sat bolt ■~ upright on the seat, the bar out behind, and both hands' clasping the handle, and it required hard work to wrench it from.' ' kis : death grip. There was about a foot* of water in the boat, buttlio'craft did not' :i; < show rough usage; ' The' man's ibgsworo" ? almost covered'with ice as far upas' his' r ; knees, and the spray had dashed over his/ •'■' back and. shoulders and /frozen.} there.'.* there was no nam>,on tbo.boat, and/tho person: who brought the,information to Windsor eould not say.that anything ; was found on the person of. the man, to roveal his identity, nor to show how he had been cast adrift. He must have been dead it least three days or moro. There, was neither sail nor mast' to tho boat; and. nothing in it but the one' oar, showing . that the poor fellow had not' intended, a ".; long trip ariywhera, and that he must <, have been blown off the shore. He had _ used his oar to keep before the wind, and had frozen to death on his seat, whera ho-, was so firmly held by the too that it had, . to be broken with stone before ho could ■-:.. bo pulledoff. ■ '■''' ■-'" '' >''■'"•'