REMARKABLE FATALITY.
LEG IN AN ANCHOR ROPE.
Thomas Calvert, aged 47, a commercial traveller whose home is at Glenbrook, ; met his death in peculiar circumstances when fishing in a skiff in Pittwater, near Newport, Jast week, says a Sydney newsThe police expressed the belief that Mr. Calvert met his death while in the act throwing the anchor overboard, police theory is that he must have over, balanced and fallen into the water, for when his body. was racorand tn& ano . rope was entwined about. Ms and his body w suspended, from the bottom of thfl wafecßt
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20365, 20 September 1929, Page 13
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96REMARKABLE FATALITY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20365, 20 September 1929, Page 13
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