DEMENTED COOK

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3850, 5 October 1932, Page 6

DEMENTED COOK

JUMPS OVERBOA III) WITH THROAT Cl'T SYDNEY HARBOUR STIR A native cook on tiic steamer t**o City of Camion, now iii Sydney wad reported drowned, and a water police launch wa s dispatched to scuxoli for his body. as the police arrived. the li-Vtn. who had been hiding for lu>ur3 under a pile of coal, rushed on deck with blood streaming from a deep gash in ills throat. He dived overboard, striking t'i« water alongside tlie police boat-, on board of which lie was hauled. He Wivj admitted t 0 hospital in a .venous condition. It is stilted that the man became suddenly demented and when he disappeared it wa§ believed than, he had been drowned.