A SAD FATALITY

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 April 1912, Page 6

A SAD FATALITY

TWO SWEPT OFF EMBANKMENT.

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GISBORNE, April 11

, A sad double fatality occurred here to-day, resulting in the death of an unknown man and boy named Gordon Brown, It appears that the man and Gordon Brown and another boj named Frederick Allen, were fishing on the groyne, wen' a heavy -sea swept them into the water. Allen was rescued by means of a life-line thrown by a man named George Cosell.

A dredge hand, named Hewitt Douglas, pluckily dived into the boiling surf and attempted the rescue of Brown. .The gallant swimmer reached him but was unable to bring him ashore, as he was entangled in the fishing line he had been using and Douglas had to let go in order to. save himself.' ■■ The Unknown man is about thirty years of age, and his identity is unknown up to the present. Deceased, Brown, is a son of respectable parents. Up to a late hour the bodies bad not been recovered, The accident has cast quite a gloom over the town. LATER PARTICULARS. GISBORNE, April 11. A man named Goatley, who has been employed as wharf labourer is missing from the Strand Cafe, whore he has been staying, and as it is known lie intended going fishing this morning, it is almost certain he was the unknown victim of the drowning fatality on the groyne, Goatley is supposed to have come from Melbourne and has been in Gi - borne only about five weeks.