SYDNEY "GAP" TRAGEDY.
BOY'S ALLEGED SUICIDE. \
(BT OLBLK—HUM issocuiw*—ee&m&tt ? {XVSISMUK 4S» X*. CAXUt IMOCUIKkS * (Received August 31si, 7.4-3 P-ffi ? SIDNEY, August 31. Another tragedy has beep added to the lung list associated with the Gxgn at South Head. Early this morning a girl ax©s*d the lighthouse keeper and stated that feer oompanion. a boy named Ecnaki Kentwell, aged sixteen, had jasßpni over the cliffs. She told a story that they had been friends, and after attending the theatre tho hoy declared that ho was.bo troubled because W had been dismissed from las empfcag"ment that he intended to throw hi»self oror The Gap. She accompaw*r«3 him, trying to dissoade hiffi frcun ka purpose. They spent several beers » th« vicinity of th« cliffs the b#f repeatedly trying to throw hinadl o*wr Finally the girl became exhausted kj her struggles, and KeatweJl hcoko svag and jumped down the cliff. The body was recovered in tk sea.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17857, 1 September 1923, Page 15
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