MAN OVERBOARD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 13 November 1912, Page 8

MAN OVERBOARD.

PASSENGER'S SUPPOSED SUICIDE. X CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Nov: 13, 12.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 13. A steerage passenger, who joined the Moeraki at Wellington, is stated to have leaped overboard on Sunday. His name is believed to be W. Godenson. It is stated that a Greek passenger, who cannot speak English, excitedly drew a deck hand's attention to something in the water astern. He was thought to mean that some of his baggage had fallen overboard, but an hour later an interpreter was discovered and the Greek declared that he had seen a passenger chimb the rails ans jump overboard. .