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proliminary inquiries made by the slice showed him to be a guiet, orderly man who minded his own business and worked steadily. This now investigation brought out a great deal more about his life before he came to America, and in the intervening years between his coming to America and the time he went to work for the Moore-McCormack lines sixteen years earlier. The report was gotten through correspondence by the police and detective agency in this country and the police in Australia. It brought out that Bridges belonged to a very respected and comfortably off family, that his father was known as an estates manager, which in this country would be a real estate management men, one who took over the management of parcels of real estate that were owned by other people. He managed business buildings, apartment houses, landed property, and so forth. They lived in a very good villa with grounds. I remember that the police report from Australia emphasized “with ample grounds,” which means something in British reporting. It didn't mean a magnificent house. It meant a vills, a comfortable house situated in its own grounds, two or three acres, with a lawn, flower garden, and out on the bay, as they said, which I presuremeans some local bay or water front. That was where the Bridges family lived.