MAD SWIMMER
AN ATLANTIC MYSTERY. (BY CABLE—PBEBJ assn. —COPWGHT.) (Recd. August 12, 2 p.m.) BOSTON (Massachusetts), Aug. 11In one of the weirdest mysteries of the Atlantic, a crazed man without a life-preserver and fully-clothed, was found swimming 160 miles at sea today by a fishing trawler. The swimmer fought attempts at rescue. Because of his unintelligible rantings. it was impossible to learn how he came to bo so far at sea. The trawler's master sent a wireless message to the coastguard, which dispatched an amphibian plane, and brought the man to the hospital here.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1935, Page 4
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