BODY FOUND IN THE HARBOUR.
A MAN-C-WABSMAN'S DEATH. The body of a man-o'-warsman named W. H. Pent was found in the harbour this morning. The corpse was discovered by a man named John White, floating in the harbour near the Bailway Wharf at a Bout 7 a.m. this morning. He made the body fast and reported the matter to the police. The body was taken to the morgue, when it was found that. the deceased was a man-a'-warsman, though it was not determined to what ship he belonged. From the advanced state of decomposition in which the body was, it is supposed that it had been in the water for some considerable time.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 250, 19 October 1904, Page 4
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