BABY DROWNED
Thrown Into Stream Wheii Handrail Breaks ? .
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercargill, September 21.
A baby four weeks old, the son of Mr. Alfred Vincent Tull, of St. Kilda* was drowned in distressing clrcunrstances in the Hollyiburn Stream serefl miles from Tuatapere this afternoon. Mrs. Tull, who was spending a holiday at Te Wae Wae( was crossing the .Hollyburn Stream by means of a., foot* lirldge carrying the baby in her. arm. She slipped, and to save hersel|;-fal> ing grasped the handrail of the bridge; The rail gave way and the baby wa« precipitated into the stream below, being carried down by the current. Mrs. Tull ran downstream and, entered the water. She succeeded in resetting the baby, but it showed no signs of life. Dr. Dodds and Constable Skipworth were summoned and artificial rtspirition applied without sucoeuu
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 306, 22 September 1934, Page 8
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