DEAD AVIATOR’S WATCH

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6992, 19 August 1929, Page 10

DEAD AVIATOR’S WATCH

FOUND IN A PAWNSHOP. A gold watch and chain belonging to Mr. H. S. Hitchcock, who lost his life with Lieutenant Keith Anderson when the aeroplane Kookaburra was forced to land in Central Australia, have been located among a jumble of goods in a pawnshop at Paddington, Sydney . The watch was a treasured possession, and Mr. Hitchcock had it with him at the time of his death. A report on the matter is being made to the Commonwealth Government by Major Lloyd, of the Federnl AttorneyGeneral’s investigaion branch. Mrs. Hichcock, who lives in Western Australia, declared, w'hen sho received her dead husband’s possessions, that the watch and chain were missing. Inquiries w r ere made at once in an effort to locate the property. A -widespread search was fruitless, until a visit to the pawnshop at Paddington revealed the articles. The watch and chain-, of course, will be redeemed and forwarded to Mrs. Hitchcock.