FALL OVER CLIFF
ROY KILLED, COMPANION INJURED By Telegraph.—Ph Ess Association. Auckland, January 17. News has been received of a shocking accident at Deep Water Cove, Russell. On Saturday evening Eric Brownlee, aged 18, of Northcote, and Frank Clow, of Russell, were returning from a scramble over the Peninsula and were resting bu the summit of a cliff a hundred feet high when a branch of a tree they were, reclining against gave way, precipitating both into a rocky ledge sixty feet below. Brownlee received injuries from which he died. His companion was rendered unconscious, and remained near the foot of the cliff all night. Next morning he crawled a mile and a quarter back to Deep Water Cove. A somewhat similar accident occurred at Deep Creek to-day. Jack Edwards, aged 17, of Takapuna, fell fifty feet over a cliff, sustaining a compound fracture of the skull.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 96, 18 January 1926, Page 4
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