Clements/Eric

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Last name
Clements
First name
Eric
  • Aged 19, arrived from Gundagai the previous day with a friend, James Murphy
  • both attended a picture theatre and when the programme was half over Clements suddenly left the theatre, after giving his friend 7 pound saying "Put this in your pocket"
  • less than an hour afterwards his body was found in the harbour near the bridge
  • Coroner returned verdict of suicide. Witness said Clements' mother was killed in an air raid and his father was killed at the war
  • police stated that Clements owed the Immigration Department 7 pound
Date of attempt
Newspaper
The Brisbane Courier, 5 August 1933, p. 19
Northern Standard, 8 August 1933, p. 4
Gender
Male
status
Died