Boy's Fatal Prank
‘‘l heartily congratulate -you on your splendid attempt to savo the boy/’ the Camberwell deputy-coroner, Mr Clarence Moran, told Police Constable Reginald Mounce, at an inquest on Alfred Charles Clark, aged 7. Playing with other boys on the bank of the Grand Surrey Canal at Camberwell, Clark boarded a barge, and when jumping to another fell into the water. A labourer working on some adjacent buildings plunged in, but could not find the boy. Then a message was sent to the Cambermell Police Station, and Police Constable Mounce, arriving at the spot in a car, dived in fully clothed. After diving repeatedly he found the boy underneath a barge,'
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 236, 6 October 1936, Page 2
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