DROWNING FATALITY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10606, 12 April 1912, Page 5

DROWNING FATALITY

TWO LIVES LOST.

(By Telegraph—Tress Association.)

GTSBOItXE, Last Night. A sad double fatality occurred bodily, resulting in the death of , an unknown man and a boy named Gordon \Brown. It appears that the man and Gordon Brown, and another boy na oied Frederick Allen, wore fishing on .ithe groyne, ,wheii a heavy , sea swept (them into tlie'water. : AJlen wa's :esi«ued by ineaars of a. life line, tbrovvn .'by' 'ia mian named George ' Cos'ejl.' A dredge hand named Hewitt Dougi-v* jpluckily d'ved into the boiling surf, and attempted to remie Brown. Ho reached him, but was unable to , Tiring. him ashore, as "lie t was; eaitangled in" the fishing line which he had llbeen using, and Douglas had to le* | go in order to save himself. The unknown man is about 30 years of age . /• *md hi & identity is unknown up to th« present. The deceased Brown is the son of respected parents. Up to a -.i-ie hour the bodies had not been recovered. The accident' has cast-' quite agloom over the town. A man named Goatley, who h»ts Ibeen employed as a- wharf labourer, is imissing from* the Strand Oafe, whcr>> _ (he has been staying, . and as it is •known that he intended to go fishing , .this. morning, it is - almost corta'.ii. tJiathe 'tfa® the unknown victim of ithe drowning ifatality at the groyne.. iCkfotley i®'.supposed to have eo.ue tfmm- MeMftmrne, and has been in iii <- bortio for about- five weeks.