MAN DROWNED.
+ FELL OVERBOARD FROM LAUNCH [THB PRESS Iptela] Sutlci.] WELLINGTON, February 7. Handicapped by a military overcoat and a pair of heavy gum-boots, Charles Clifford Arthur Capp, a young married man, slipped off Charles Phillips's launch, near the Seatoun wharf last evening, and was lost in the darkness and drowned. Messrs Phillips and Capp and two companions, Messrs D. James and It. Bridgcwater, left at'll o'clock yesterday morning to go fishing. They were returning in the evening, and were only two hundred yards from the Sea'oun ■wharf when tho accident occurred.' It was about 8.15 o'clock at. the time,.and very dark.' Mr Capp. had gone forward to get tho anchor rope ready, when he was seen to slip over the side. The launch was at ouce stopped, and the others put off in the dinghy in search of their companion, but he had disappeared in the darkness. The sea was very choppy, and Capp, strong swimmer though he was, would have had little chance of reaching safety because of the clothing he was wearing. Search was continued for a long time without success, and the body has not yet been recovered.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 8 February 1927, Page 3
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192MAN DROWNED. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 8 February 1927, Page 3
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