600 FEET DROP TO DEATH
EX-JOCKEY’S FATE [Per United Press Association.] . GISBORNE, August 22. While returning from a visit to a friend at Whareongaonga on Sunday afternoon Francis C. Porter, aged 52, a widower, and a public works employee, fell from the path on the side of a steep cliff and dropped! 600 ft to his death. Ho was not noticed! missing until Monday evening, when with Constable Andrew (Bartletts) a' search was made. A sack found on the track gave an indication of the whereabouts of the deceased, and 1 the searchers went to the bottom of the steep face and there found Porter’s body. His fall had apparently been checked after having fallen about 100 ft, as his false teeth were found in a pool of blood 100 ft from the track. The task of the searchers was a difficult one, and after bringing the body to the track by means of ropes it was necessary to carry it on a stretcher three and a-half miles to send it to Gisborne.
Porter was formerly well-known as a jockey, and had ridden some great champions of the New Zealand turf, notably Count Cavonr.. He is survived by one married daughter.
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Evening Star, Issue 23351, 22 August 1939, Page 8
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201600 FEET DROP TO DEATH Evening Star, Issue 23351, 22 August 1939, Page 8
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