FIANCE DROWNED
WOMAN'S TERRIBLE ORDEAL.
SWAM ON FOR SEVEN HOURS. ;iVI bsbrt'i i ' ■' i; Young Couple Thrown From Launch in Rough Seas SANK AFTER FAREWELL KISS. Association—Conyrfght. (Received 11 a.m. To-day). Brisbane, To-day. Thrown from a canoe into rough t»eas with the man she 'Was 1 engaged to marry, Violet Mclntyre, aged 27, spent reven hours in the water before *ha was rescued by a motor launch off fvloroi.on Bay. She had swum alone Cor five Hours' after her -fiance. Frederick Burnett, also aged 27, exhausted by the high waves kissed her goodbye and sank* : IP's body has not yet been recovered. When picked up Miss Mclntyre was' I delirious and half unconscious.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 100, 6 April 1936, Page 5
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113FIANCE DROWNED Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 100, 6 April 1936, Page 5
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