GRAFTON BRIDGE
I RUSSIAN JUMPS TO DOOM. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 20. A large number of lives lias been lost as the result of people throwing themselves over Grafton Bridge into the gully below. Another case of this kind occurred on Saturday, when an elderly man, Vladimir Eugene Pisarenko, mounted the parapet and threw himself over. He was dead when found. Pisarenko belonged to a noble Russian family, and be was one of tbe victims of the Russian Revolution. With his family, he was forced to leave Russia, and succeeded, after many hardships, in finding his way to England. While in London he married a New Zealand girl, and later on they came to the Dominion, and settled in Auckland.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1930, Page 1
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