TRAGEDY ON LINER
(From "The Post's" Renresentative.) * SYDNEY, July 21.
After he had cut his wife's throat, Alfio Grasso, 31, an Italian, travelling to Brisbane, jumped overboard from the liner Orama while the vessel was at sea, and was not seen again. His wife, Leonardo Grasso, 26, is' recovering. A laundryman, who was by the port door of the laundry on E deck, saw Grasso fall into the sea. He immediately telephoned the bridge. A lifebuoy with a calcium flare was dropped froip the bridge, ani the ship returned to the lifebuoy. It circled slowly about the area, but no sign of the man was seen.
In the meantime. Mrs. Grasso. with her throat cut. was found standing alone on D deck. She had three wounds in her throat. All apparently, had been inflicted with a sharp knife. She was taken to the ship's hospital, and is making a remarkable recovery. Through an interpreter, she was understood to say that her husband asked her to kiss him and she leant over and did so. At the same, time he inflicted the injuries, and immediately jumped overboard.
The British Ministry of Agriculture is to make a grant of 60 per cent., about £468.000, towards the cost of sea defence schemes in Essex,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 22, 26 July 1939, Page 20
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