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August 29, 1984 Newsroom 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337

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Body discovered on Cypress Friday afternoon

A WEST Vancouver hiker made a grucsome
discovery Friday afternoon — the body of a man
who died after a motorcycle accident earlier this

month.

The body was found in a
creek bed about

a@ quarter
mile west of the Cypress
Bowl rangers’ works yard

By MARK HAMILTON

mid-afternoon Friday
Police were on the scene

quickly and were able to
idenufy the dead man as
Philhp James Burke of 1457
East 22nd Avenue in Van-
couver

Police investigation
revealed Burke had last been
secn August 15) and was

reported missing to Van-
couver Police on August 19.
According to what police
have been able to determine,
Burke was riding a motorcy
cle at a high rate of speed
along the Cypress Bowl rode
some tume after August 15,
when the motorcycle left the

road and
tree

Burke suffered a broken
leg and other so far
unknown tnjurics as a result
of that collision

According to police,
Burke crawled downhill,
away from the scene of the

collided with a

accident in an attempt to
reach help.

fo deadline for today's
edition of the News, police
had not determined when
Burke died or what the cause
of his death was.

Investigation into” the
tragedy ts continuing