JUMP TO DEATH
SYDNEY CLIFF TRAGEDY Onlted Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, August 10. A man threw himself over a cliff at Echo Point, Katoomba, falling 1000 feet, into the valley below. A search party later found the body impaled on a tree stump. It was identified as that of George Wilkinson, aged 35, a Sydney bookmaker. A young woman, whom Wilkinson asked to hold his overcoat witnessed the tragedy.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20493, 11 August 1936, Page 5
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