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Friday, April 2, 2010

AN EVITT DROWNS IN MELBOURNE

The Argus on Monday 18 October 1875 reported that on the previous Saturday the body of a man named WILLIAM EVITT had been found floating in the Yarra River above the Botanical Gardens. The deceased was about 60 years old - around my age - and was last seen on 9 October when he left the Bricklayers' Arms Hotel, Church Street, and headed towards the river.

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