TRAGEDY FEARED.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4591, 17 May 1922, Page 4

TRAGEDY FEARED.

DRIFTING BOAT AND MISSING MAN. A boat about 15ft long was picked up ashore about 100 yards on the inside of the lighthouse in “Wellington Harbour by Mr Antonio Delabarea oil Monday afternoon. There was no occupant, but there was a hat in the boat, with a fountain lion, a watch, a bunch of keys, comb, a pocket boob, and a letter addressed to Mrs Graham, Kelburn. A note in the pocket book asked the finder of the boat to return it to Mr J. Heath, Worser Bay. Tho letter expressed the writer’s intoution of committing suicide, and asked his mother to draw his money from the National Provident Fund. He gave reasons for his contemplated act, and stated that it was the only way out of his difficulties. The addressee of the letter is a widow, and her son’s name corresponds to the signature of the letter —Frank Graham. Ho was a clerk in the rates office of the City Council, and left the position about three weeks ago. He has been “baching” at “Worser Bay. His age was 26, and he was a single man.