AN AWKWARD PREDICAMENT.
A coKREsroNDBNT says a photographer oj Kingston-on-Thames had a singular experience lately. He rose about half-past two o clock ono morning to have a bathe, undressing in his own garden, which runs down to the river. When ho gob to tho opposite or Middlesex bank he was so exhausted that he felt lie dare not venture to swim back again, and as it was impossible to attract the attention of his family, who were sound asleep on the other side of tho Thames, ho had to adopt tho only alternative left—viz., to walk to Hampton Wick, a distance of about a quarter of a mile, where some of his friends resided. This he did, managing to roach tho house without being seen, the darkness and the early hour both being in his favour. The servant at home, on coming downstairs and finding her master's clothos in the garden, coneluded that he had committed suicide. She at onco informed tho police, and a constable was making a search when ho met the gentleman returning home in tho borrowed clothos.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9157, 25 March 1893, Page 10 (Supplement)
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181AN AWKWARD PREDICAMENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9157, 25 March 1893, Page 10 (Supplement)
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