Captain Charles McIntosh Morris

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TRAGEDY ON ST. JOHN BARK.
MOBILE, Ala., Nov. 22 - The British bark Birnam Wood, from Rio Janeiro, in charge of Mate Poe, arrived today and reports that on Nov. 18, the Captain, named Morris, killed the vessel's steward. The body was buried at sea. The captain kept his cabin, pacing up and down. When informed that Sand Island light was sighted, Nov. 22, he gave the mate the course, picked up a sea lead, jumped overboard and was drowned.
The Birnam Wood is one of the Wm. Thomson & Co. fleet, but has not been at this port for years.
Daily Sun, St. John Daily Sun - November 23, 1901, page 1

THE BIRNAM WOOD TRAGEDY
On Saturday the Sun published a dispatch from Mobile reporting the killing on Nov. 18 by Captain Morris of the bark Birnam Wood of the vessel's steward, also the suicide of the captain. The Sun stated that the Birnam Wood was a vessel of the Thomson fleet but had not called at this port for some years.
Further inquiries show that Captain Morris belonged to Advocate and was a son of Enoch Morris of that place and for some years sailed on the Spencer Island Fleet, having had command of the Charles S. Whitney. He was a man of about forty years of age, well built, and weighed fully two hundred and fifty pounds. The late Captain Morris was a school mate of J. Willard Smith and a man of most excellent character, Messrs. Thomson & Co. looking upon him as one of their best masters. He leaves a widow and three children. He married a daughter of Edmund Reid of Advocate, N.S.
Daily Sun, St. John Daily Sun - November 25, 1901, page 8