EATEN BY CANNIBALS.
FURTHER DETAILS OF TRAGEDY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyrlshl. Received Oct. 20, 5.5 p.m. Sydney, Oct. 20. One of the victims of the Cannibal tragedy, Eric Bell, of Chatswood, Sydney, was 26 years of age. He won the military medal in France and gained a lieutenancy. He intended returning to Sydney this month to be married. Bressler's real name is Frank Brexler, aged 30, a trader in timber and jungle products.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [An earlier cable from Thursday Island stated that two white men named Dresslar and Bell, while bird hunting, ivere killed and eaten by cannibals on the Fly River, in British New Guinea].
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1920, Page 5
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106EATEN BY CANNIBALS. Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1920, Page 5
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