TRAGIC HAPPENING.
CAPTAIN’S SON DROWNED.
To be within an ace of saving his son, and then to lose him, was the tragic experience recently of Captain Oscar Cosulich.
The captain was out in his sailing yacht, in the vicinity Of Portrose (Italy), and had with him his, young son and a nurse.
Whilst the captain was busy for’ard attending to some little matter he handed the tiller over to the nurse, who momentarily took her eye off her charge;
The nurse screamed asi she saw him disappear, and the captain, whose attention had been called to' the accident by the nurse’s, cry of horror, jumped over the side and made for the little chap, who had flloated s°me distance away.
Twice the agonised father sa,w his son disappear and re-appear, and was close by him —in fact, had stretched out his arm to catch hold of him . when the little chap sank again. The father dived, but was unable to locate the body and had to swim back to the yacht in an exhausted condition, knowing his efforts to save-his idolised son had only missed realisation by a few seconds.
The body of the little fellow was subsequently washed ashore a few miles from the scene df the accident.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5047, 3 November 1926, Page 4
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209TRAGIC HAPPENING. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5047, 3 November 1926, Page 4
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