CHILD DROWNED
TRAGIC DISCOVERY
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day,
About five minutes after being missed John Charles McNeill, aged 11-J months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry McNeill,-was found drowned at midday yesterday in a fish pond in their front garden in Carrington Road. The child was playing about the garden with other members of the family when he disappeared. A search was begun immediately and he was found lying face upwards in less than 18 inches of water. The boy was unable to walk properly and it is surmised that he crawled to the pond, raised himself to the top of the ledge about two feet high, and toppled over as he was watching the fish.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 6
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