FAMILY TRAGEDY
THREE DROWNED. FATHER AND TWO DAUGHTERS. SURVIVOR’S LONG SWIM. BY CABLE-PBE-SS ASSOCIATION —COPYBIGHT. (Received Jan. 24, 10.15 a.m.) PERTH, Jan. 24. While Albert O’Brien, with his two daughters Gladys and Catherine, and his niece, were returning along a sand spit from the Swan river from a crabbing expedition, they suddenly dropped into deep water. O’Brien and his daughters were drowmed. The niece, after a swim of three hundred yards, reached the shore, where she was found by a search party.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 January 1925, Page 5
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82FAMILY TRAGEDY Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 January 1925, Page 5
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