GIRL LOST IN QUICKAND
A MAN’S CALLOUSNESS “ I should like it to he publicly known that a person who calls himself a man refused to assist my wife when my littlo child might have been saved,” said the father of Gladys Cheesman, at the inquest in England. She was aged three, and was drowned while paddling. It was stated that the tide was out, and the child stepped from water only a few inches deep into a quicksand over 3ft deep. A boy aged twelve dragged her unconscious out of the water. The mother said: “ I carried my child 12yds, and asked a man to help. He replied: “Take it up the beach and pump tiie water out of it.’ With that he walked away.” The Coroner observed: “I don’t like to condemn a man in his absence; but, as stated by the father, it is surprising to behove that any right-minded man would do such a thing.” In returning a verdict of death by misadventure, the jury urged that warning notices should he placed on the, beach*
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Evening Star, Issue 19044, 12 September 1925, Page 17
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178GIRL LOST IN QUICKAND Evening Star, Issue 19044, 12 September 1925, Page 17
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