BOY’S FATAL PRANK
“ I heartily congratulate you on your splendid attempt to save the boy," the Camberwell deputy-coroner. Mr Clar ence Moran, told Police Constable Reginald Mounce, at an inquest on Alfred Charles Clark, aged seven. Playing with other boys on the bank of the Grand Surrey Canal at Camberwell, Clark boarded a barge, and when jumping to another fell into the water. A labourer working on some adjacent buildings plunged in, but could not find the boy. Then a message was sent to the Camberwell police station, and Police Constable Mounce, arriving at the spot in •a car, dived in fully clothed. After diving repeatedly ho found the boy underneath a barge.
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Evening Star, Issue 22462, 6 October 1936, Page 11
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113BOY’S FATAL PRANK Evening Star, Issue 22462, 6 October 1936, Page 11
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