A coroner's inquest was held on the body of Eddy Warn Tucker, American seaman, bowman on the barge of the U.S.S. Black Hawk, before Mr. N. E. Lurton, U. 8. Commissioner, on Monday afternoon, the verdict returned by the jury of six American citizens being to the effect that the deceased met his death by accidental drowning. Medical testi-many by Dr. Thomas Dunn and Dr. Charles E. Ryder, Commander Medical Corps U.S.N., agreed that the deceased had suffered no violence and that the body had not been in the water long.
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