ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 35, 25 January 1932, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

TRACES BROWNINGS. NINE-YEAR-OLD BOY UNNOTICED IN BATHS. Te Awamutu, Jan. 23. A second drowning fatality within 24 hours, occurred at the public swimming baths this afternoon, Brian Harvey, aged nine, whose parents reside at Avenue road, New Plymouth, being drowned under tragic circumstances. Together with his sister, aged twelve years, he left his aunt's home at 3 o’clock for the baths, where there was an attendance of over 60 people. The two children separated, Brian being neither noticed nor missed till nearly 4 o’clock. A girl swimmer, Jean Fleming, re].orted that her foot touched something at the bottom of the baths, and an investigation revealed deceased about one-third of the distance from tho shallow end, in about five feet of water. Artificial respiration was tried for over an hour but with no avail. Nobody noticed deceased enter the water, nor heard any cries of distress. The doctors surmise that he must have been in the water at least a quarter of an hour before he was found. 16-YEAB-OLD GIRL DROWNED. ATTEMPT TO SAVE SISTER. Whakatane, Jan. 23. A drowning fatality occurred in the Whakatane river at 2 o 'clock this afternoon. Irene Wilson, aged 16 years, in company with her two younger sisters, went to bathe on her father’s farm. The father heard shouts and hastened to tho river, and saw his daughters struggling in deep water. The father rescued one child, and Irene, in attempting to save another, collapsed and was drowned. An inquest will bo held to-morrow.

’PLANE FALLS INTO RIVER. TWO BROTHERS KILLED New York, Jan. 22. Two men were killed as an aeroplane in which a transport pilot was training his brother to fly crashed into the crowded East river before hundreds of witnesses. The machine entered a tail spin at 1000 feet and fell close to a freighter which was feeling its way through a narrow channel. The freighter manned a derrick and pulled the wreckage from the water. YOUNG MAN FOUND DEAD. BULLET WOUND IN HEAD Ashburt°n, Jan. 21. Hughey Gourley, aged 25 a single man, was found dead near the riverbed this evening with a bullet wound in his head. Deceased had been missing since Tuesday morning, when he went shooting rabbits. A search party of 80 men was out for three days. The body was found by the father after the search had been given up. CIRL FOUND DROWNED. MISSING FOK TEN DAYS. Palmerston North, Jan. 21. 'Hie decomposed body of Norma Corley, aged 17 years, daughter of Albert Edward Corley, farmer of Opiki, was found in the Manawatu river, near Rangiotu. The deceased left a note ten days ago stating her intention of drowning herself. She had been missing since January 13.

Overdue Steamer Bopple. The overdue steamer Hopple has been reported ofli Cape Criprrcnni. She

POLICE SUPERINTENDENT SHOT DEAD. REVOLUTIONARY ARRESTED. (Received January 24, 7.15 pm) CALCUTTA, January 23. Police Superintendent B. J. Shooter, who was transferred from Chittagong to Calcutta following the Government inquiry into Hindu-Moslem riots at Chittagong last year, was found shot dead at the United Service Club with a revolver his side. A young revolutionary believed to be named Yashpal was arrested in an Allahabad house occupied by a European woman, a theosophist, who marriit] an Indian. When the door was opened to admit the police a party of revolutionary suspects fired six shots, but the police were uninjured. A man and woman were also arrested and a large quantity of arms and ammunition was seized. ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE INDIAN PERSONNEL Rugby, Jan. 22. Sir Zulufiquar Al) Khan and Mr Chintamani havo been added to the Indian personnel of the committee about to begin work in India in continuation of the discussions of the Round Table Conference.