TWO LADS DROWNED.
Clyde Slovens ami Effort Parker, both lit years of ago, were drowned off St. Kilda beach, Melbourne, on January IGI In company with Lawrence Wrigl'ev and Albert Hurchollj who were also about IG, hoy had gone in to bathe. Wrigley was tho-only lad who could swim. The sea was not unusually heavy, but the night was dark. After they had been paddling nlont for soiuo lime, Wrigley heard n cry from Burchell, and went out to him. Burcholl was then up to his mouth in waver, ami the waves were passing over him. Wrigley swam out and brought him on to tho rocks, thoroughly exhausted. Tho bodies of Stevens and Parker wore swept on lo the beach by tho waves some time after. Wrigley had previously heard a cry and swam,out a second time, but, though ho hail seen Stevens only a fewminutes before, he was missing. . When tho bodies were washed ashore it was found that life was extinct in both cases.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1660, 29 January 1913, Page 10
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166TWO LADS DROWNED. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1660, 29 January 1913, Page 10
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