FALL OVER CLIFF

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 August 1939, Page 12

FALL OVER CLIFF

DEATH OF AN EX-JOCKEY. [PER press association.] GISBORNE, August 22. While returning from a visit to a friend at Whareongaonga, on Sunday afternoon, Francis Charles Porter, 52, widower, a P.W.D. employee, fell from the path on the side of a steep cliff, and d. J.v. -d uOO feet to death. He was not noticed as missing until Monday evening, when, with Constable Andrew (of Bartletts) a search was made. A sack found on the track gave an indication of the wherabouts of deceased, and 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 feet, as his false teeth were found in a pool ofblood, 100 feel from the (rack. The (ask of Uk< searchers was difficult, and. after bringing the body to the track by means of ropes, it was necessary to carry the body on a stretcher three ami a-half miles, in order 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 Cavour. Ho is survived by one married daughter.