DEATH BY DROWNING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 29, 3 January 1927, Page 6

DEATH BY DROWNING.

THREE TRAGEDIES IN WELLINGTON. TWO WOMEN AND A BOY. Three drowning tragedies occurred in and around Wellington over the weekend, the names of those who lost their lives being: Eva Blanche Douglas, single (aged 22), of Glenmore street, Wellington; Emily Agnes Owen, married (aged 46), of Richmond street, Petone; and Patrick Alec Tuohy (aged 9), of Wellington. Miss Douglas got in difficulties in a 40-foot pot-hole at Maori Bank, on the Hutt river, about 2 o’clock on Saturday afternoon, and several persons who went to her rescue, including the young man to whom she was engaged, likewise found themselves in trouble. She was caught in the under-current and disappeared beneath the water. Up to a late hour last night the body had not been recovered. A sad feature of the’ tragedy was that the girl’s mother, Mrs G. B. Douglas, who is a widow, was on the bank and saw it occur.

The body of Mrs Owen, of Petone, was noticed by Constable McNamara floating near the Petone wharf at 5 a.m. yesterday. A doctor was hastily summoned and artificial respiration was applied, without success. Deceased, who was the mother of three children, is thought to have been dead when she was brought ashore. So far it is not known how she came to be in the water. Patrick Alec Tuohy, who resided with his mother, Mrs Kathleen Tuohy, housekeeper for Mr Keegan, on the hulk Adderley, went in for a swim, it is thought, near the Lyttelton ferry wharf, some time yesterday afternoon, during his mother’s absence. At 3 p.m. a Maori saw the child’s body floating on the top of the water. After he was brought out a doctor, assisted by Detective Tricldebank and others, worked incessantly for over an hour and a-half to try and bring him around, but without success.