Launch Fatalities.
DROWNED OFF BATTERSEA I _„___ SIR DENIS ANSON OVERBOARD. [By Eleotbio Telegbaph—Copybightl [Unitkd Press Asbociat'W. " (Received 9.10 a.m.) London, July 3. During a moonlight trip in a launch to Eew, the vessel, returning at three o'clock in the morning, lurched off Battersea, and Sir Denis Anson, a New Zealander, who recently succeeded his uncle, Sir William Anson, fell overboard.
Mitchell, a member of the orchestra, jumped overboard. The tide was running strongly and Count Constantino Benckendorff, son of the Russian Ambassador, also jumped over, but was carired away. He was ultimately rescued in an exhausted condition by the watermen. t
Anson and Mitchell were drowned
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 62, 4 July 1914, Page 5
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106Launch Fatalities. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 62, 4 July 1914, Page 5
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