CHILD DROWNED.
PLAYING ON RIVER BANK. X (PBBSS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAH.) GISBORNE, January 20. "While his two elder brothers were swimming in the river at Muriwai, James Desmond McCabe, a four-year-old child, who was playing on the bank, must have fallen into the water. The brothers, who were aged 12 and seven, missed him when they left the water, but thinking he had gone back to the house, went away through the paddock and played. After they had been playing for some time they began to wonder where their young brother was, and eventually saw his body caught in a snag in a creek. The body was secured'but life was extinct. The fatality occurred on Mr R. K. Murphy's property, near Muriwai, where ,the parents of the children are living. Mr McCabe was working out on the property at the time, and Mrs McCabe was in the house, but was totally unaware that anything was amiss.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18905, 21 January 1927, Page 2
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155CHILD DROWNED. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18905, 21 January 1927, Page 2
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