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day at Anch'ing about 4:00 P.M. The two v/ere 
together during the day. 
Mr. Meyer vent to his room at six o'clock 
.after having dinner in the saloon. I went into 
his room at six and poured out tea for him and 
did not see him afterwards. He appeared and 
spoke as usual at this time. He mentioned that 
we had passed Anch'ing and asked me how I was 
getting .on. I asked him hov/ we was getting on 
and he said he felt better than when he was at 
Hankow. 
About 1? o'clock the compradore's boy called 
to me and said that my master could not be found. 
He said that at about 11:30 he had seen Mr. Meyer 
come out of his cabin and supposed that he v/as 
going to the W. C. I looked into Mr. Meyer's 
room and found only his coat so that he must have 
had his shoes on and have been otherv/ise dressed. 
The Captain then appeared and a search was made 
of the ship. 
There were no bad characters, to my knowledge, 
on the boat and Mr. Meyer had not offended any one 
as he v/as of a very quiet mature. He never showed 
any signs of insanity. 
The following is the statement of Mr. R. P. Tenney, Consul 
detailed to the American-Consulate, Shanghai, in regard to 
Mr. Meyer's death: 
On .Tune 5i I918, T went on board the S.S. 
"Feng Yang Maru" and secured the signatures 
of the officers of the ship on the affidavit 
attached to this report. I questioned the 1st 
Class Chinese steward, whose signature appears 
on the affidavit. He stated that he was on 
duty in the saloon in the evening of June 1st 
and had seen Mr. Meyer leave his room and sup- 
posed that he had gone to the W. C. 7 ex- 
amined the room that Mr. Meyer had occupied 
and found the arrangement to be about as shoT/n 
in the following sketch: 
September 31, 1918. 
