WELLINGTON FATALITY.

Wairarapa Age, 8 February 1927, Page 7

WELLINGTON FATALITY.

MAN DROWNED AT SEATOUN.

Handicapped by a military overcoat and a pair of heavy gumboots,' .Mr. Charles Clifford Arthur Capp, a young married man, slipped off Mr. Charles Phillips’s launch near the Seatoun Wharf, Wellington, on Sunday evening, ‘ and was lost in the darkness and drowned.' Mr. Capp, who was in his early, thirties, resided with his wife, and child in Ferry Street, Seatoun. He was a linesman, employed by the Wei- j lington City Council. I Messrs Phillips and Capp and two 1 companions, Messrs D. James and R. Bridgewater, left at 11 o’clock on Sun- ■ day morning to go fishing. They w*erc ' returning in the evening, and were only | two hundred yards from the Seatoun ] Wharf when the fatality occurred. It ’ was about 8.15 o’clock at the time and • very dark. Mr. Capp had gone forward to get the anchor rope ready when ho was seen to slip over the side. The launch was at once stopped, and the ethers put off in the dinghy in search of their companion, but he had disappeared in the darkness. The sea was very choppy, and Mr. Capp, strong swimmer though he was, would have had little chance to reach safety because of the clothing he was wearing. Search was continued for a long time without success, and the body has not yet been recovered.