Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-05-14 | Page 1 | Sharks Ate the Captain's Body

day3 later, ber ofiloers mot three Renimen beating down tho coast In an open boat, with the bodies of the Captain and the Kanaka. In two, wrapped wrap-ped in matting The ship's liquors had given out on the second day, Lhoy t;ald, and the worn out captain anrl his Kanaka bad taken to a stock of bottled toilet waters. The Kanaka died four hours after hla last drought and the captain In eighteen hours. Then the ship began to break up and the men took to the lifeboat. Fearful of being suspected of murder, they had towed tb bodies proof of their Innocence astern. When th-circumstances th-circumstances had been explained, the officers of Java cut the bodies adrift and left them to tho sharks SHARKS ATE THE CAPTAIN'S BODY New York, May 14 Four of the crev of the wrecked ship King Georgy brought word to port ye3terday of i how their csiptaln John Jeffray of Newfoundland, New-foundland, and bis Kanaka servant 1 were fed to the sharks last Novem- ber off the coaat of Java. And the moral of their tale Is "Never drink perfume, uo matter how dry the ship's lockor." The Kongo went ou the rocks Nov.' 24 last. Seven of her crew of thirty swam ashore und a Dutch revenue cutter picked up the others, save Captain Cap-tain Jeffrav, the Kanaka and three flallonj who volunteered to stand by while the ship held together. When the cutter returned a few