GREAT SWIMMERS DEATH.
ARTHUR CAVILL COLLAPSES
Received Tuesday 5.5 p.m
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—CopyTiE&t Sydney. Tuesday.
With reference to the cable concerning Cavill's death. Richard Cavill is at the present time in Sydney. It is beileved the reported death refer 3 to some other member of the famous Australian swimming family. Received Tuesday, 9.55 p.m. Sydney, Tuesday.
The Cavill referred to is Arthur, known as "Turns," a brother of Richard.
(It was cabled on Monday from New York that Richard Cavill, th well-known swimmer, died from exhaustion while attempting to swim Seattle Harbour, which is three miles across. The tfwater was cold, and a strong wind was blowing. After swimming for an hour and ten minutes Cavill became unconscious, and was lifted out of the water. The doctor who was calle i in declares that he was literally frozen to death, and that his circulation was so retarded that his heart stopped heating.)
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 648, 4 March 1914, Page 5
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152GREAT SWIMMERS DEATH. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 648, 4 March 1914, Page 5
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