TOOTH DROWNED IN RIVER
BATHING FATALITY • r (Special to THE BUN.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Sunday. William Jemison, aged 17A years, *a» drowned at Upper Mangorei on •Saturday afternoon. Jemison, who was a baker’s apprentice in New Plymouth, usually spent w week-end with his parents, who at Upper M&ngorei. about 11 miles irom New Plymouth. He went away on an errand for his ■nother taking his bathing suit. At 7 0Ut 8 P *n. the father and mother - iscovered the lad’s clothing beside J th« river bank. There was i deep hole in the river at this spot, de °P' about 30 feet long, d I» feet wide, where the body of e Doy could be seen at the bottom. ! a ®J‘cc*> ver ed by a searcher named iZ g rewster * but was then too al ® for anything to be done.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 259, 23 January 1928, Page 11
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139TOOTH DROWNED IN RIVER Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 259, 23 January 1928, Page 11
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