CHILD’S BODY FOUND
Drowned in River
Dominion Special Service. Wanganui, January 19.
The body of Peter 'Martin, a child aged three years, who was missing from his home at Karioi,. near Ohakune, on January 15, was found on the following day after dragging operations in the Rangiwaea River. Detective J. Murray, of Wanganui, and Constable S. J. Frost, of Ohakune, were in charge of the search for the boy, who it was thought, had slipped into the river, which was in flood. The body was found six chains away from where marks indicated the boy had been playing.
At an inquest held before Mr. Edgar Larkin, J.P., and a jury of four, a verdict of accidental drowning was returned. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Martin, of Karioi, were the child’s parents.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 98, 20 January 1936, Page 11
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