DROWNING FATALITY.
On Sunday evening the police were informed that a man named Charles Shannon, employed as a catcher at Mr Siefert’s mill at Rangitaue, had disappeared in the river. Shannon, who was having a bathe after lea, was seen by several of the hands to sink and rise twice and then disappear. Three ol the men, assisted by a Maori, immediately set out in a canoe to endeavour to recover the body, but up to dark met with no success. Yesterday morning the Palmerston police went out early, and at S o’clock Constable Barry, mill the assistance ol two ol the with han.ls, uvovoied the body, widen was taken to the Palmerston moigiic.
Shannon was nineteen years of age, and his patents ate supposed to icsidr at Kaikorai, 1 hinedin.
At the inquest held yesleiday afternoon a vetdiet of accidental dent li iluongh diowning was lelurned. The deceased was some little lime ago working at one ot the local mills and has a brother at present working at one of the mills in the district.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 927, 6 December 1910, Page 2
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176DROWNING FATALITY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 927, 6 December 1910, Page 2
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