A deputy sheriff friend identified the body and disclosed that the actor had declared his intention to commit suicide by getting into a boat and "sailing away into the sunset." (17 November 1936)
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Friday 20th of April 1917 (-) — Geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist and explorer of South America Percy Fawcett leaves on his final expedition from Cuiabá with his eldest son Jack, Raleigh Rimell and two Brazilian labourers, two horses, eight mules, and a pair of dogs Fawcett and his companions were probably killed and eaten by the Kalapolos Indians.