VICTIMS OF DROWNING

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 31, 7 February 1927, Page 10

VICTIMS OF DROWNING

• ' FATALITY AT SEATOUN

MAN SLIPS OFF LAUNCH

Handicapped'by a military overcoat and a pair of heavy gumboots, Mr. Charles Clifford Arthur Capp, a young married man, slipped off Mr. Charles Phillips's launch near the Seatoun .Wharf last evening and was lost in the darkness and drowned. Mr. Capp, who was in his early thirties, resided with his wife and child in Ferry street, Seatoun. He was a linesman, employed by the City Council.

Messrs. Phillips and Capp and two companions, Messrs. D." James and E. Bridgewater, left at 11 o'clock yesterday morning to go fishing. They were returning in the evening, and were only two hundred yards from the Seatoun Wharf when the fatality occurred. It was about 8.15 o 'clock at the time, and very dark. Mr. Capp had gone forward to get the anchor rope ready when ho was seen to slip over the side. The launch was at once stopped, and tho Others put off in the dinghy in search of their companion, but he had disappeared in the darkness. The sea was very choppy, and Mr. Capp, strong swimmer though he was, would have had little chance of reaching safety t>eeause of the clothing he was wearing. Search was continued for a long time without success, and the body has not yet been recovered.