Biography

Alias Robert. The deceased was employed at the Vivien Gold MIne, Lawlers. He was last seen around 9pm on the Saturday evening. By 8am the next day, it was discovered, after extensive searching, that Cometti was missing. The skipman at the mine was underground at the time, and went to the surface to tell the cyanide men to stop sending sand down the No 8 pass until Cometti was found. They then went down each level and, upon finding some tracks, took some sand out, then took four trucks out, and at the fifth, they saw a man's leg. The body that was taken out was found to be that of the deceased. Cometti had been working on the mine for about a month. The deceased had a brother, Giovanni, who came to Western Australia and was at the time working in the Gwalia Mine, Leonora, but his four sisters, Elizabetta, Aginesa, Maria and Catterina, all remained living in Lombardy, Italy, as did their parents. The deceased left an estate valued at £131/16/6. The deceased is buried in Plot 08 Section A, Roman Catholic section of Lawlers Cemetery.