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Temuka Leader, Issue 1653, 29 October 1887, Page 3

The A-Ustrim giant Winkelmeyer, who was ao recently the wonder of London, is dead. A telegram to that effect from Vienna states that he died among his own psople, aft»r a brief career of glory at the London music halls. The c.uae of his death was tuberculosis, though, says the Daily News, “it might perhaps be mors graphically described as generally running to seed. Those who had the misfortune to see him at the children's fete in Hyde must have read his doom in his face. His p'umed Tyrolean hat towered above everything in prospect, bat the features beneath it wore hideously wasted. The huge shambling body h id no belter principle of cohesion than a clothes-hoyse, The legs seemed to b« protesting against Ihr weight of the trunk, and to he painfully divided against themsslves as to their angles of juncture in the neper and the lower poitions. Poor Winkelmeyer, in fact, was physically a kind of human weed, and his so e distinction W is in being a weed Oft. high.” Ho was only 20 years of age.