A LEAP TO DEATH.
Auckland, Last Night,
A pedestrian on Grafton Bridge at eight o’clock to-night was horrified to sec a man climb the parapet and hurl himself over. When ihc body was found in the scrub below life was extinct. The man was about 35. Written in pencil on a piece of cardboard in his pocket was the following message: ' . Ted Bell,l am going to eonumt suicide. L am going over Grafton Bridge.—Jose McLennan. On another piece of paper an address in Vincent street was given.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3628, 21 April 1927, Page 2
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87A LEAP TO DEATH. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3628, 21 April 1927, Page 2
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