LEAPED INTO THE SEA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7209, 18 August 1910, Page 5

LEAPED INTO THE SEA

I'ASSBNOJSK B V THE WARitIMOO DISOWNED.

A fatality occurred (luring the passage of the Warrimoo. which arrived at tielMngton yesterday from Sydney. At 4 o'clock on Monday afternoon a steerage passenger named J. It. ji man described as single. and about thi rty-fivc yours oi age. was been by e man ut the wheel to deliberately Jump overboard from the forecastle bead. Thu engines were slopped, and tu Brotclue passed the bridge Brew ch c omeu, Jiirow a lifebuoy to him- AUhoUoU tut buoy fell within two leel oi made no attempt to gnus i it, and he ui appeared almost immedlatol.i. w it>.i., The accident boat was latmehtd withi three minutes, but louml u , 0 w ,^ r ‘^ 0 a i31( , 0 d Urotehio. At 4.25 p.m. the boat was “h, , ou board, and thou the \Varr muo lookout posted on each of hoc ula r7 t ®;, 6 P;' cd slowly around until sunset, when, aa signs could be seen oi the mat, the v-s*el Iroin' Hcotland, arrivod in Sydney by the steamer Narriuir. hom London with a number oi immigrant. , iff w‘ia unable* to obtain employment m Australia. ami this —I *“vo nromptod him to come to New Zealand, nrow.niu Honoured to lie Buffering Irom nioUnchojaKm Lid to be abstemious m hw habits. ’Lior to taking his fatal * w !. l ’ / U f" U :f-'“ o Tket ed up a draft for .about i.l!> a J ‘ (ink and left it with u few personal bis 0 '!/. 0. 'smith, superintendent of Mercantile Marine will hold an mqu.ry today concerning the f«.vt*uit>.