TRAGEDY OF THE TYROL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22368, 15 September 1934, Page 5

TRAGEDY OF THE TYROL

LOST CUMBER FOUND DEAD A search by hundreds of men for six days in the mountains near Unteraeh, Austrian Tyrol, lately ended in the discovery of the body of a young Englishman. He was Humphrey Jovons, aged 22, a student in engineering, of London, whose father is Professor Herbert Stanley Jovons, the well-known economist. The body was found in a moraine of

the Elsenkogl Mountains by two Germans who were on a globe-trotting tour, and had joined the search party, Mr Jevons, who had been staying at Unteraeh for a week, went out alone last Sunday for a walk, intending to bo back for lunch. He never returned. It was believed that he fell down a precipice. 1 He wore shoes Unshod With nails, which would make him liable to slip. After Mr Jevons was reported missing his father and sister hurried To the Tyrol, and Professor Jevons offered £SO for I information clearing up his son’s fate.