SLEEPER'S GREAT FALL.
A sleeping, man, who had chosen a stonr couch on top of a buttress at tho Chafing Cross pier, rolled over early ono morning a few weeks ago and fell 20ft. into the Thames." It was low water, and tha man alighted near a schooner on the slimy mud, into which ho sank up to his shoulders. A lifebuoy was thrown to him, and to this he clung until he was removed by Charles Stacev, who, -with others, rowed from the pleasure ateamers moored on the Surrey side of the Thames on hearing cries for help. The. man, aged about 28, waa removed to a hpspital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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109SLEEPER'S GREAT FALL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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