(PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, September 27. John McClure, aged forty-two years, committed suicide at South Dunedin to-night by cutting his throat with a razor.
An able seaman named Robert Jasper, employed on the Corinthic, was killed while the vessel was coming up the harbour to-day. He was getting the winch ready for working cargo, when the boom, which had just been hoisted, fell on him, crushing his chest in, and killing him instantly. Jasper was married, and his wfe and five children live in London., He was a native of Jamaica, and was about forty-five years old.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14472, 28 September 1912, Page 12
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