["The Late Boat Accident", The South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Friday 28 September 1866, page 2]
The Late Boat Accident.
On Wednesday evening the master of the Young Australian reported to the police having seen a body floating near the moorings in Light's Passage, and at daylight the following morning the Water Police were dispatched in search. They found the body on Torrens Island, and brought it up to the Port, where it was identified Mr. S. McPherson as that of his father, the late Mr. Pilot McPherson. The body was of course in a very advanced state of decomposition, and was only recognised by the clothes. Nothing is left of the head but the bare skull, and the whole of the flesh of one leg has disappeared. Information was sent to the Coroner, who decided that no inquest was necessary. In the meantime the corpse is deposited in one of the cells at the Police Station. It is highly necessary that some suitable place should be provided for cases of this kind, as the effluvium is most undesirable in the Police Station.
