Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....Sinclair, Mr. December 16, 1876
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20 December 1876 The Brunswick Advertiser & Appeal; pg. 1 col. 2

Sad Accident  

	On Saturday night (Dec. 16, 1876) last, as Mr. Sinclair, Machinist at 
the B&A RR Shops of this city, was going to his boarding house from some place 
on Bay street, the night being quite dark, it is supposed he missed his way 
and fell into the well at the turpentine distillery (there being no enclosure 
around it) striking his head against a piece of timber down in the well above 
the water, inflicting a serious wound, which caused his death the following 
day.  What he must have suffered, none can tell, for, although he had strength 
enough to crawl out of the well by a ladder that happened to be at hand, was 
unable to get away or to call for help.  He was found by policeman Pitman just 
before day the next morning, and taken to his boarding house.  Mr. Sinclair is 
a machinist by trade, and has a family in Darien, we learn.  He was at one 
time engineer for Dodge, Meigs & Co, of St. Simons Mills.  
     	Queries--Was it accidental?  Whose fault is it that so dangerous a 
place is left without an enclosure?

Wednesday Morning 3 January 1877; pg. 1, col. 2

Did he fall into the well?  

	The feeling is gaining ground that Sinclair the machinist, did not die 
from injuries received from falling into the well at the turpentine still, but 
from a blow on the head before falling into the well.  The reason assigned is 
that the piece of plank found in the well with hair sticking to it was no part 
of the well itself, but simply a small piece of board floating on the water.  
The presumption is that he was struck with that piece of plank and then pushed 
into the well, and the plank thrown in after him.

Wednesday Morning 3 January 1877 Supplement; pg. 1, col. 1

	The last theory about Sinclair's death is that he never fell into the 
well at all, but that he went up on the platform at the distillery to rest and 
falling asleep rolled off and hit his head upon something hard, thus 
inflicting the wound that caused his death.  The blood in the well and hair on 
the stick theories have exploded.


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