STRANGE DOUBLE FATALITY.
POLICEMAN AND GIRL PRISONER. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyrteht . London, March 28. A city policeman and a girl whom ho was arresting were drowned to-day under peculiar circumstances. The girl, who was charged with having stolen a mattock, eluded the constable, and jumped into tho river. Tho constable dived in after her* but she gripped him and refused to release her hold, with the result that both were drowned. A second policeman dived repeatedly in an attempt to recover the bodies from the river, which is fifteen feet deop at the spot where the tragedy occurred, but without success.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1089, 30 March 1911, Page 5
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100STRANGE DOUBLE FATALITY. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1089, 30 March 1911, Page 5
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