ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
A SAD FATALITY.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
liotorua. Lard Night. Charles Keen, aged 22, was drowned in the Lob-tvr Hath. Knirau reserve, at eleven o'clock this morning. Deceased went into the bath accompanied by a <■' paniou named llniwn, and almost immediately sank. He ro>e to the .-urtace and sank again, but did not again come to the surface. Brown ran for assistance, and Maoris dived and recovered the body, but too late. Deceased arrived here about a week ago on his honeymoon. j| ( . wa.i married on the llith' in*t.. and cam." from Auckland. An iiKjiii-.il will he 1,,.!,) (hi„ afternoon. The Lobster Ibith was not rcco-nised as a public bath, all bather.- there doing so on their own responsibility. There have been several deaths in' the same baths. It is supposed the bather was overtaken by fumes.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 78, 28 April 1909, Page 2
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139ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 78, 28 April 1909, Page 2
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