CAR FALLS OVER CLIFF.
\ DROP OF 120 FEET. (From Oar Own Correspondent... MELBOURNE. Wednesday. Alleged to have been stolen from outside an office early this evening, a single-seater motor car fell over "a steep cliff, a distance of 120 feet, into ! lie River Yarra. at Studley Park toI night about 9 o'clock. It is not definitely known whether either of the two men believed to have been in the- car when it made its plunge over the cliff, was injured in the fall or drowned when The i car. after turning over twice, struck the water, and sank. One man, who, it is thought, was probably in the car. was seen later wandering about Studley Park in a dazed condition, and was heard to murmur, '"Go in for my mate." Howe><rr. he disappeared before the ', police arrived. The police later ascertained that there 1 were three men in the motor car. The car was recovered from the river, a total wreck, but no bodies have been found. There are still possibilities, however, that two of the men have been _. j drowned.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 53, 4 March 1926, Page 16
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181CAR FALLS OVER CLIFF. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 53, 4 March 1926, Page 16
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