HOOK HAULED BY TIGER

Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1930, Page 9

HOOK HAULED BY TIGER

TRAGIC END TO • VENTURE RIVER CASTS UP REMAINS COURIERS’ GRUELLING WORK By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Loudon, July 30. Burmese couriers, after many forced marches, brought news of the finding of Eric Hook's body, terribly mauled either by a tiger or a leqpard, says the Rangoon correspondent of tbs Daily Mail. Although the body was little more than a skeleton there is no doubt of its identity. It was found naked, and the expedition wrapped the body in ground sheets and took it to Prome for interment. The searchers had a gruelling tune, often being waist deep, and even chest deep in the water ,of raging streams, It is recalled that Matthews, who with Hook crashed on a flight from England to Australia, left Hook on the bank of a mountain river, which rose and washed him away. Hook was undoubtedly then dead. A curious coincidence is that the body was eventually left high and dry by the receding torrent only a furlong from the spot where Matthews met the villagers. HOOK'S FUNERAL AT PROME. LARGE GATHERING DEEPLY MOVED Rec. 1.30 a.m. Prome, July 31. The remains of Hook were interred In the local cemetery this morning. The funeral was' accompanied by Hook’s companion, Matthews, the deputy commissioner and all the important district officers and military police with reversed rifles. The sad cortege was witnessed by numerous epectatora, all of whom were deeply moved. Matthews remains at Prome until his health has been reestablished.