HARBOR TRAGEDY.
MAN LEAPS FROM PRYMONT BRIDGE. Sydney, March 10. At about a quarter past 4 o’clock in the morning, Walter Lane, living at Harewood street, Pyrmont, saw a man on the rail of Pyrmont bridge on the point of jumping into the harbor. Lane rushed to stop the man, but before he could reach him the man had jumped in. Thp operator on Pyrmont bridge threw in a lifebuoy, but the man made no attempt to grasp it. A watchman on the Melbourne Steamship Company’s wharf searched the vicinity in a skiff, but failed to find him. A search was next made by the water police, and at 5 o’clock Sergeant McGann and crew found the body of a man about 50 years of age, near the Balmain ferry wharf, and about 200 yards from the bridge. Resuscitation methods were applied until Sydney hospital was reached, but on arrival Dr. Cummings pronounced life extinct.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 March 1922, Page 2
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155HARBOR TRAGEDY. Taranaki Daily News, 28 March 1922, Page 2
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