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Sensational Report of the Death ofWillie Fleetwood.A very sensational report was current lost night of the death of Willie Fleetwood, non of Copt. W. H. Fleetwood, by drowning near St. Augustine creek yesterday afternoon. The rejxrt wok brought totho Captain at 11 o’clock last night by Miko Hennessy and one or two other young men who composed the party. They brought with them the lad’s coat, vest andshoes, and said he was knocked oft the boat by the boom. When they first saw him he was ten feet from tho loat and only seventeen or so from the marsh. When they hadturned around tho l*nt and began to search for him nothing could bo seen.It seems that Miko Hennessy, George Adams. Willie Fleetwood and several other boys left the city Saturdaynight in a sailboat bound for Tyboe.. They anchored at Fort, Oglethorrie until morning and then proceeded on their way The wind freshened in tho afternoon, and they changed their minds and turned around to come home. Noar the South ciiannol and St. Augustine croek tho boat jibed, and the boom swinging around knocked young Fleetwood off tne veasel, as they say.Mrs. Fleetwood went into hysterics on hearing the dread announcemi*nt of herson's sudden death, and the Captain wasgreatly shocked. Last night to a reporter, he expressed his great doubts of the truth of the report, and said it seemed very queer. Tho loys who were with bin) gave few particulars of the sad accident, and this aroused his suspicions. He said his boy was an uneommonlj’ good swimmer, and from where ho was knocked overlxard he says it is only 100 foot or so to the railroad embankment, and a g«xd swimmer would be able to save himself there easil}'. He is going down the river early in the morning, and will make a most careful search.A Nkwk reporter called at Mrs. Hennessy's residence on Houston street, late last night. Mike’s mother answered the call, and in compliance with the reporter’s request endeavored to wake him up. She finally said she could not arouse him, and tho reporter was compelled to accept that rerdy. tu answer to inquiries she said he haa said nothing to her about the accident, and that she knew nothing of it. This seemed rather an odd circumstance, but it may be the young men paid less attention to the accirfent than others outside. The reports given so far, so the reporter was informed, seom hardly as clear as could bo wished for, and the youug men are blamed for their romissnoss in this respect.
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Savannah Morning News
Savannah, Georgia, US
Mon, Aug 22, 1887
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