REPORTED SUICIDE AT SEA.
CHRISTCHURCH. December 28
Henry Cranley, aged 33, married, uith a wife and two children in DuneGin, was a passenger to Lyttelton by the Maori last night. When in the Straits, 10 miles from Wellington, lie was standing by the rail with two friends, one his cousin, who wanted him to go to bed. He replied that life was going to have a duck, and forthwith jumped overboard. He was on his way to Christchurch looking for shearing work. His cousin thinks Cranley was worrying about something, as when on the wharf a policeman asked his name he heard him give a wrong one.
The shipping company, the police, and the officers of the steamer know nothing of the alleged jumping overboard of Henry Cranley, as reported t> the newspapers by his cousin.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12405, 29 December 1909, Page 7
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136REPORTED SUICIDE AT SEA. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12405, 29 December 1909, Page 7
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