A Sausage Maker’s Body Washes Ashore at Priest Point
Charles Honick had been missing three weeks. A boy found him on the beach, and Olympia’s police chief and coroner went to see whether foul play was involved.
The body of Charles Honick, who was drowned some three weeks ago, was found today at Priest's Point by the young son of William McAloon. The boy was walking along the beach and the body was lying there, it evidently having been washed up last night. The boy will get the $25.00 reward offered by the Grand Army Post, Geo. H. Thomas No. 5. Chief of Police Savidge and Coroner Armstrong went down after the body this afternoon. Honick was the well known sausage man. An examination of the body will, perhaps, show whether or not he was foully dealt with.
“An examination of the body will, perhaps, show whether or not he was foully dealt with.”
Priest Point Park is now a wooded preserve on Budd Inlet, a peaceful place with no trace of this 1892 scene. The story is a reminder that suspicious deaths in small cities still depend on the same fragile chain of discovery, reward and coroner’s inquiry.
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