DROP TO DEATH
EX-JOCKEY’S FATE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
GISBORNE, August 22.
While returning from a visit to a friend at Whareongaonga on Sunday afternoon Francis Charles Porter, aged 52, widower, Public Works employee, fell from a path on the side of a steep cliff and dropped 600 feet to his death. He was not noticed missing till Monday evening, when , with Constable Andrew (Bartletts), a search was made. A sack found on the track indicated the whereabouts of Porter, and searchers went to the bottom of the steep face, finding Porter’s body.
The searchers’ task was difficult; they had to bring the body to the track with ropes. It was then necessary to carry it on a stretcher for three and a half miles before it could be sent to Gisborne.
Porter was formerly well known as a jockey. He rode some great champions of the New Zealand Turf, notably Count Cavour. He is survived by one married daughter.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1939, Page 2
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