TRAGIC FATE OF AN ENGINEER.
DIES OF STARVATION. Only now, months'after his death, has the pathetic fate become known of an English engineer. John Needham Longdon. who had devoted the last years of his life to the investigation of a new method of producing electricity. Air. Longdon was a Fellow of the British Society of Engineers, and was known throughout the Empire for his work in field, civil, and 1 mining engineering. There was some mystery as to what had become of him, but the finding of throe large cases of mechanical apparatus in a New York safety deposit vault led to the discovery that lie had died months ago from starvation. He had beggared himself in the effort to evolve a method of generating cheap electricity. Tiie unlucky inventor had spent £20.000 on the work, and it is presumed that the boxes which have just been unearthed'contain the results of his researches.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3148, 18 February 1911, Page 6
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153TRAGIC FATE OF AN ENGINEER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3148, 18 February 1911, Page 6
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