A FARMER DROWNED

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1920, Page 2

A FARMER DROWNED

FALLS OFF COB DEN BRIDGE. GREYMOUTH, This Day. Hr Patrick Horan, aged 70 years, married, a retired farmer, was drowned by falling off Cobden bridge last night. It appears . a motor car was passing deceased, and he stepped aside and fell over the bridge, which is unde, reconstruction. The body was found this morning.

What appears to have boon a drowning tragedy created some anxi vry i.ist night in Greymouth. The facts are that whilst crossing Cobden bridge at t .45 o’clock in the evening, a man named Eatwcll passed another man, whom he failed to recognise, and who appeared to be under the influence of liquor. Afte. proceeding seme distance, Eatwell heard the wires rattling. Ho looked back, but failed to see the man. *Ho then made an investigation. He met two ja.riies (>» bicycles, and asked them if they had spen the man. They answered in the negative, it is assumed that the man fell info flip river. No splash was heard, however. There was a rapid run in thu river at the time, and there were no lights. The police and Air Tom \yp-il begin searching in flic yieinity as soon as possible, hut up to the time of oiii' going to press no sign of the missing man had been discovered. —Argus.