DOUBLE FATALITV.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1412, 12 April 1912, Page 6

DOUBLE FATALITV.

MAN AND BOY DKOWNED AT GISBORNE. lE* TelecraDU.-Frn»« As>ocl«tlnn.! Gisborne, April 11. A sad double fatality occurred to-day, resulting in the death of an unknown man and a boy named Gordon Brown. It appear? that; the man and Gordon Brown and another boy named Frederick Allen were fishing on the groyne, when a heavy sea swept them into the, water. Allen v.as rescued by means of a lifeline thrown by a man named George C'ospll. and :i dredge hand named Hewitt Douglas pluekily dived into the boiling surf and attempted to rescue Brown. He reached him, but was unable to bring him ashore, as he was entangled in a fishing line he had been using, and Douglas had to let go in order to save himself. The unknown man is about 110 .wars of one. The deceased Brown is a son of respected parents. Up to a late hour the bodies had not been recovered. The accident cast quite a gloom over the town. Later. A man named Goatley, who has been employed as a wharf labourer, is missing from the Strand Cafe, where he has !>cen staying, and as it is known that, he intended going fishing this morning, it. is almost certain he was the unknown victim rf the drowning fatality at. the groyne. Goatley is supposed to' have come from Melbourne, and has bcou iu Gisbonie about fivs weekv