DROWNED IN A WELL.
A boy three years and seven months old, the eon of Mr Donald Craig, gardener, met with his death under very distressing circumstances at Epsom yesterday atternoon. The lad had been living at Ellerelie with Mr Harrison's family on Major George's farm. In company with two other children the deceased was playing in the vicinity of a well surrounded by a three-rail fence. The deCeased mounted the "fence, and, overbalancing himself, fell down the well, a distance of about eight feet. The well contained about four feet of water, and the child musb have been drowned almost immediately. The other children ran to Mrs Harrison's house for assistance, and on the way met Mr Carmichael, a baker, to whom they related the sad news. Mr Carmichael went to the well as quickly as possible, and with the use of a ladder succeeded in recovering the body. Life was extinct, and all efforts to restore consciousness failed. An inquest on the body was proceeding at the residence of the child's parents this afternoon.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 304, 23 December 1891, Page 5
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