January 14th, 1888
The Trinity Record gives a few additional particulars of the sad drowning casualty, resulting in the death of three men, which occurred near Southern Bight, Random, on the night of the 16th of last month. The melancholy facts are these: It appears that a young man, by the name of Patrick Bess, left Placentia Bay with the intention of spending Christmas with his sister—Mrs. Robert Seward—in Gooseberry Cove, near Heart’s Ease. He arrived at Southern Bight about dark on the above mentioned date, and after partaking of some refreshment, engaged two young men—Richard Goobey and William Grigg—to row him to Northern Bight, a distance of a mile. They started on their journey, and in the morning the punt was picked up filled with water; and also their caps. A piece of plank was started from the timbers of the boat, and it is supposed the man who was sculling burst it off with his foot, and the boat filling with water, the occupants were drowned.__________________________
June 9, 1888 , Page 2
On Sunday morning last, a man named John Churchill belonging to Random, -Trinity Bay, left the schooner Sunflower tor the purpose of taking a walk ashore, and has not since been heard of. Search has been made in every direction, but without avail, and where he has disappeared remains a mystery. His friends say that lately he has been suffering from depression of the mind. —Mercury
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