Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1879 — Eaten by His Friends. [ARTICLE]

Eaten by His Friends.

A Carthage correspondent of the Watertown (N. Y.) Dispatch tells a queer story to the' effect that Captain C. L. Smith, formerly a stove merchant at that plac %, was eaten by his friends, after casting lots, to escape starvation. Smith was an officer in the Second New York Heavy Artillery’. In 1869 or 1870 President Grant appointed him Consul at some point on the Amoor river. Resigning, he went into the fur business iu China for a New York German firm. He made a fortune for himself and the firm, and, With others, started in a junk to intercept a vessel bound for America. The Crew mutinied, robbed them, and put them offou a barren island. They came near death’s door, cast' lots to see Which should be killed and eaten, and Smith was the man. Mis friendsate him and were finally rescued. Smith's wife, who with friends in Chicago, after her husband’s appointment did no! hear from him for years. She was found dead in bed before the story became known. When Smith was made Consul he was in the stove business at Tennally town* M«L The story of his death did not reach his friends Until recently , when a Chinaman, who was one of the survivors, related the-fact to a friend of Captain Smith's.