Bridge still with his hands
and feet tied. Only now the
issue of his nationality had
been cleared up. A New
Zealand paper reported that
‘Gautier was born in England,
although both his parents
belong to Normandy’.
In July 1904 Gautier dived
from a boat just above Putney
Bridge; ‘he adopted a
peculiar stroke, his clasped
hands being drawn swiftly
downward, while his bound
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