TRAGIC COINCIDENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 117, 20 May 1939, Page 14

TRAGIC COINCIDENCE

An extraordinary coincidence, fully pouched for by independent, witnesses.. ■*k reported, states a Gisborne correspondent. At a Gisborne picture -theatre on Tuesday evening the pro--ixamme included a minor feature dealing with the fishing industry off the -English and Scottish coasts and show- : «mg a £eet of trawlers at work in the -■■ -yjtrti "Sea. The rescue of a man who -is washed overboard from one of the -tfawlers is enacted. Sitting in the "theatre was a well-known Gisborne woman, whose two brothers are en"gaged in the fishing industry at Home "and who consequently felt a keen interest in this feature. While watching Tthe rescue of the fisherman, however. • she experienced a severe attack uf Tnausea. The attack passed off.partially. :.but sufficient of its effects remained in spoil her enjoyment of the remainder -«f the programme. The woman reIseived a cablegram on Wednesday morning stating that >■ her two -brothers had been washed overboard from their trawler while at ■sea and that only one had been "rescued. The lost seaman was single •and the rescued man is married. The -time at which the cablegram was dispatched from the United Kingdom was approximately equivalent to the time at which the Gisborne "woman suffered her attack of nausea.