AN IMMIGRANT'S FATE

Evening Star, Issue 12902, 27 August 1906, Page 6

AN IMMIGRANT'S FATE

' CHRISTCEURCH, August, 37. The body found last Monday at Dyer's Pass, Christchurch, has been identified as that of William Bridges, an unmarried man, between thirty and thirty-five years of age. He came to the colony from England in January by a Shaw-Savfll boat, and had resided with Semb, a boarding-house keeper, since the beginning of the year until about five weeks ago. Semb states that Bridges was a quiet man, of abstemious habits, who cams to the colonv with a mate, whom he left at Auckland*. He was an assistant locomotive fitter by trade, but could not obtain work at this branch of the trade, as there is nothing between a first-class fitter and a laborer. He failed to secure work, and his money began to ebb, until every penny of the £3O he landed with had 'disappeared. Then he pawned his watch and sold all his clothes excepting What he wore, and set off for Dunedin" with, the intention of looking for work there. He had apparently no mental troubles, but was of reserved disposition, and hours in has room writing to his relatives in Derbyshire. He always paid way, and stated that he, was not an assisted immigrant, but had paid his own passage. The body was identified by a photo.