Accidents and Fatalities.
[By Telegraph.] «>» (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, Oct. 27. James Anderson, a seaman on the ship Ben Nevis, was drowned on Tuesday night by walking over the Rattray street wharf. He was proceeding on board with the carpenter, and after stopping to light his pipe walked over the wharf, despite the warning cry of the carpenter, who had gone, ahead. Thomas M'Gladery, the carpenter, gave the alarm, and without waiting to take off his overcoat jumped in after his shipmate, but could not reach him before be sank. The carpenter said he thought the deceased was short sighted, A verdict was returned of accidentally drowned, the coroner's jury adding a rider recommending M'Gladery to the notice of the Humane Society for his bravery. Anderson, who was 54 years old, was a native of Glasgow, where he had a sister living. He shipped at Melbourne.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 462, 28 October 1897, Page 2
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146Accidents and Fatalities. Hastings Standard, Issue 462, 28 October 1897, Page 2
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