ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19779, 1 February 1928, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

BOY DROWNED. A drowning accident occurred at Hamilton, near No. 1 bridge, when a boy of eleven, named Ernest Jonathan, the only son of Mr C. H. Jonathan, carrier, of Charlemont street, Whitiora, lost his life. It appears that the boy Jonathan, with two other boys, the brothers Farquhar, went for a dip in the Waikato River. The two brothers were standing on the bank when the boy Jonathan entered the water, and they suddenly heard cries of distress from him. One of the brothers seized the drowning boy and endeavored to support him, while the other rushed away for Mrs Jonathan, who was near by. When she reached the scene, however, her son had disappeared, as the little boy who grasped him. who was only nine vears°of age, had been unable to retain his hold. The body has not been recovered. DEATH UNDER ANESTHETIC. A man named Dixon Rollandson, residing at 116 Marine parade, died under an anaesthetic at the Napier Hospital yesterday. He had been an inmate of the institution since September last. FOUND DROWNED. ■ William Connelly, aged twenty-two who is said to reside in Sydney street, was drowned in the Khandallah swimming pool last evening. The body was recovered and taken to the morgue.— Wellington Press Association telegram.