DROWNING ACCIDENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1918, Page 6

DROWNING ACCIDENT.

JCOBONOR'S .EfQTJEST OK FATE OF '-' . IYOUNG MAN. Masterton, Jan. 23. 'A corofiort inquest touching the death irf Sidney Martin Kane, twenty-sue years of age, who was drowned while bathing in a dam on Brancepeth station yesterday afternoon, was "held before Mr. E. G. Eton, the district coroner, to-day. Harry Turvey, station hand at Brancepeth, said that yesterday afternoon he went with deceased and three other employees to the dam. Kane said he could swim. He jumped in first off avapringhoard. By the way deceased shaped he had no idea of how to swim. Kane rose to the surface, hut only get from about the bridge of his nose above water. Teasdale, the chauffeur, reached off the springboard and caught him by the hand and got hlrji near the springboard, 'but deceased pulled away. Teasdale then •went into the water, and deceased caught him round the body, and they both sank. They struggled for a. while, and Teasdale bad a job to get free. Kane then sank, and that was the last they saw of him alive. The coroner found that deceased met kis death by accidental drowning. The coroner referred to the gajllantry of Teasdale in the efforts made to rescue fieceased. j • 4 ===== ~*<m.