THE GISBORNE FATALITY.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIV, Issue 19, 12 April 1912, Page 5

THE GISBORNE FATALITY.

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supposed identity ok the .Man.

[press association.] GISBORNE, This Day

Gordon Brown and another boy named Frederick Allen Avere fishing on the groyne Avith an uulinoAvn man, when a heavy sea swept them all into the water. Allan Avas rescued by means of a life-line thrown by George Cosell. A dredge hand named Hewitt Douglas pluckily dived into the boiling surf and attempted to rescue BroAvn. He reached him, but was unable to luring him ashore as he was entangled in the fishing line he had .been using, and 'Douglas had to let go in order to save himself. The unknoAvn man is about 30 years of age, and his identity is unknoAvn up to the present. Deceased BroAvn is a son of respected parents. Up to a late hour last night the bodies had not been recovered.

Later. A man named Goatley, who has b'een employed as a wharf labourer, is missing from the Strand Cafe, where he has been staying, and as it 'is'' Known, he intended going fishing yesterday morning it is almost certain he was the unknown victim of the drowning fatality at the groyne. Goatley is supposed to have come I? from Melbourne, and has been in Gisborne about five weeks.