SUPPOSED BATHING ACCIDENT.
YOUTH MISSING. CLOTHING FOUND ON BEACH. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, This Day. While over a hundred peonle were bathing on Shelly beach about 8 o'clock laßt evening a lad of eighteen years, named Leslie Adams, was apparently carried out by the current and drowned. No one heard any cry for help and no anxiety Was felt until hours after, when his clothing was found on the rocks. A cousin of Adams had noticed the latter, who could not swim, up to his arm pits in the water, and when he missed him supposed he had gone ashore. When the clothing was found a search was made in a boat but no trace of the body was found. Adams' father resides in Freeman's Bay.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 635, 17 January 1914, Page 5
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126SUPPOSED BATHING ACCIDENT. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 635, 17 January 1914, Page 5
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