MOTHER & CHILD DROWNED.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1696, 12 March 1913, Page 7

MOTHER & CHILD DROWNED.

A SYDNEY BOATING, ACCIDENT. A drowning accident attended b,v most pathetic i<elreunistniiccs' occurred shortly after 2 o'clock.on February 2.1 in Sydney Harbour, opposite Cremorne, when Beatrice Matilda Dmnnietl, a young married woman,, and her little daughter, Olive Wcait Dmnhwl years of age, .wero drowned through the pleasuro. boat thev were in ennsizing. ... According to tlie story furnished' by;.tho husband, Thomas' Duminelt; who. vended with his wife at Dalmuin, ho left homo about 8.30 a.m., and went to Bnlmain, and liired a pleasure lio.it with a sail.- He than rowed round to Yeend Street, in Wat'erview llav, Ualmain, . where Mrs. Dummelt and their little daughter, got into the boat, They rowed .to AlliM Bight, and on arriving th<h\i the little party went lishore to have dinner. About half-past one they ■ left Athol Bight to go for a sail. They were running before the wind with a leg of million sail; All went well until opposite Cremorne, near Fort Denisoli, when Dummett jibed, and the boat rolled over, allowing the waler to rush in 'and swamp it. Tn an instant they were all struggling in the wnter. Dummelt managed to get h<s wife and child on to the boat, but tin's bad been no sooner accomplished than tho 'boat rolled over again, throwing the piuiv, into the wat'or once more. Mi's. Duniniett and the child then drifted away from the boat, and, becoming separated, wero drowned. Tho two bodies wore picked up by Horace Bradley and*. Tamos .Wiseman, who were in separate Stiffs, and conveyed to tho Government: steam launch, Gladys, which appeared oil tho scene of the accident about the same time. They were taken with all haste to 11.M.5. Encounter, at Garden Island, where Dr. M'Farlane. the ship's surgeon, pronounced life ' extinct. Mr. Dummett was picked up by the Gladys in (in exhausted condition,