A PRISONER DROWNED IN THE AWATERE.
WHILE COLLECTING FIREWOOD. [United Pbkss Association.] BLENHEIM, Monday. An inmate of the Prison Camp at Dumgree, named Charles Hamilton Moir, aged 27, serving a sentence o£ 18 montfis, was drowned in the Awatere River on Saturday afternoon. The gang of prisoners was collecting firewood, when Moir waded out to secure a floating log which struck him Another prisoner had a narrow escape in trying to rescue Moir. The body was recovered in ten minutes, but life was extinct.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 17 June 1907, Page 2
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84A PRISONER DROWNED IN THE AWATERE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 17 June 1907, Page 2
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