DROWNING FATALITY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2053, 3 December 1907, Page 2

DROWNING FATALITY.

.MAN’S BODY DOLIN' D ON AVAIKANAE 15EAOH. .Mr. 15 cm- t Davy, while bathing a liurae near the Abattoirs yesterday morning, came across the body of a man limiting in the waiter. AYilien dragged ashore the body was found to be that of a middle-aged man, well dressed in a check suit. His eyes and lips appeared to have been nibbled at by fish. The body did not seem to have been long in. t'he waiter. The only articles found in the pockets were a piece of paper with “John Owens, Enlield-roail, Napier,” written in ink on it, and a .small key with a. sixpence attached to it. The clothes were marked “Blythes, Napier and Hastings,” and a panama hait found in one of tho pockets bore the words “.Roach Bros., Hastings.” Dr. Coker examined the body in tho afternoon, and found that the wounds on the body were the result of bites from fishes or birds. A posit-anoiitem examination of the (body was made yesterday afternoon, and the inquest will be held at 2 p.m. to-day.

From inquiries made by the police the conclusion has been arrived at that deceased is one Dm.vid Y. Kirk, recently employed at Nelson Bros.’ freezing works, Tonioaua, Hawke’s Bay, who had been transferred to the linm’s Gisborne works. The local .manager for Messrs. Nelson Bros. (Alr.-C. A. Fenwick) states that notice had been received hero of the expected arrival of a man who should have come by last Wednesday’s boat, hut up to last night had not reported himself at the works. CONFIRMATORY NEWS FROAI NAPIER. Press Association. NAPIER, Dec. 2. In reference to a telegram from Gisborne stating that the body of a middle-aged man had been, found in tho surf there, and that in tho pockets was found an address, “John Owens, Enfield-road, Napier,” inquiries have elicited tho fact that Air. John Owens is at present in Napier. It is supposed from tho description given that tho body is that of a man named David James Young Kirlc, in tho employ of Nelson Bros., Ltd., Tomoana, as slaughter-house clerk, who left, on transfer for the firm’s Gisborne branch on tho 26tli November, but who had not put in an appearance at tho works there.