FATHER’S OROEAL
TRAGIC cm: OF CHILD VAN!Si lE‘l) BEFOR K IoYFF Toddiing ahead ol’ her father to buy an ice-cream, Jour-year-old Ruby Alalina Yarnell, on holiday at Anderson Creek. Lincolnshire, disappeared in a hole in tin- sand. ‘•She -just seemed to slip in." her father, .Mr. John Robert Yarnell. or Lincoln, toldi the Alablethorpe coroner. “I went in niter her, hut all .1 could see was a piece of her hair-ribbon and one hand. She gave one cry of ‘Daddy!’ and I never heard her again.” Tbidence was given that Air, Yarnell, in his efforts to save the child, sank ii]> to his shoulders in the sand. He had to. he prilled out with ropes. The engineer of the Alford Drainage Hoard explained that there was a culvert muter the sand. This had a cavity wall, a hoard of which hadj evidently rotted. Tho incoming tide had caused a subsidence and the mixture of water and sand had resulted in what might he termed quicksand. A verdict of “.Misadventure” was returned.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 239, 27 September 1939, Page 4
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171FATHER’S OROEAL Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 239, 27 September 1939, Page 4
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