WALKER FROZEN TO DEATH.
Frank Fletcher, aged 50, a noted globe-trotter, was frozen to death while on an expedition from San Francisco to Buenos Aires in the course of a walking tour round tho world. Ho undertook the tour for a wager of £2OOO and one of the terms was that he should sleep under the sky at all times. While- -fill Ailing this agreement Fletcher lost his life. He went to sleep alongside a haystack, and during the night the weather turned bitterly cold. Ho .had no protection, and so was frozen.
By the terms of the wager he was to walk the entire distance to Buenos Aims, and ik)t use an automobile, train, or even a pair of roller skates.
Fletcher claimed that lie had beaten tho record of Edward Weston, and he hoped to establish a new record for walking round the world.
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Shannon News, 8 January 1924, Page 3
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146WALKER FROZEN TO DEATH. Shannon News, 8 January 1924, Page 3
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