SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
“COOLGARDIE” SMITH PASSES. United l’ress Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 2 p.m. to-day. VANCOUVER, Jan. 2-
A. Erskine Smith, mining broker, soldier of fortune, and gentleman adventurer in three continents —better known as “Coolgardio ’ Smith—died on Wednesday He earned his .sobriquet on the Australian gold diggings, where he won and lost half-a-dozen fortunes. Smith won the light-heavyweight boxing championship at Johannesburg in the early ’nineties, and he was a pioneer of the Klondike field. He was born in 1867 at Launceston, Tasmania, and was a companion adventurer of Frank Slavin and Frank Gotch.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 3 January 1930, Page 9
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