A SHOCKING FATE.
All Paris has been deeply stirred by the shocking fate of a little girl of nine, named Georgette Babin. While walking home from school with her father after the recent snowstorm, she fell into a yawning sewer of great depth. Cries for help were heard for a moment and then ceased. The child had clung, doubtles, to the edge of the subterranean platform, and had then been swept away by the force of the current, which was swift and swollen. The people who flocked around could scarcely restrain the father from jumping in after his -child, who must have been instantly drowned. One man was lowered with ropes, and remained immersed* tor nearly twenty minutes. Others ran along the platform to explore, but unavailingly.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 3610, 5 April 1881, Page 3
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127A SHOCKING FATE. Temuka Leader, Issue 3610, 5 April 1881, Page 3
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