STRANGE DROWNING CASE.
. TWO GIRLS TAKE FRIGHT. Timaru, May 0. The adjourned inquest on the death of the girl of eleven years, Agnes Maloney, who was drowned in the Opihi, near Pleasant Point, on Anzac Day, showed that she and a companion of the same age were frightened by seeing two boys with a gun. They attempted to cross the river, and both rushed down, the one being drowned and the other helped out by a man, who happened to Bee her struggling in the water. The boys said they saw the girls wading, but thought they were paddling. They took little notice, and went on. When the man first saw the girls they were on their feet, and he supposed they were paddling. The coroner, Mr: Wyvern . Wilson, concluded that the girls, being frightened and recited, slipped and fell, but did not think they had any cause to bo frightened of the boys, who had no intention to frighten them. He returned a verdict that they were accidentally drowned, no blame being attachable to anyone.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1917, Page 8
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176STRANGE DROWNING CASE. Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1917, Page 8
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