A BOY DROWNED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 3 January 1927, Page 5

A BOY DROWNED

IN WELLINGTON. HARBOUR

WELLINGTON, This Day.

A nine-year-old hoy, Patrick. Albert Tuohy, who was playing, around, the Lyttelton ferry' wharf at Wellington shortly after four p.m. . yesterday, fell into the water and was drowned. It has not been clearly established how he got, into the water. , He was wearing a bathing suiV and apparently triedj to swim to safety. Respiration was tried unsuccessfully when "the body was recovered.

ANOTHER' HARBOUR FATALITY

WELLINGTON, This Day

The body of Mrs Emily Agnes Owen, aged. 46, of Petone, was found floating in the harbour near Petone wharf last evening." Deceased, who is the mother of three children, was attended by a doctor, but'is believed ten have been dead .when brought ashore. So far it is not ; known how she came to be in the wa|er. At the .inquest on Mrs Owen, of Petone, the husband, John Joseph Owen, said his wife went out on Sunday morning at 5 a.m. and could not be found. Samuel Joines said he saw deceased acting* strangely, - apparently out of her .mind, on the steps of Petone wharf. He went for. the Police and when he returned the woman was in the water, dead. '

The jury returned a verdict of death due to drowning while of unsound mind. DROWNED IN HUTT RIVER -.. WELLINGTON, This Day. Eva Blanche Douglas, single, aged 22, > got into difficulties in a forty foot .pothole at Maori Bank, on the Hutt River, on Saturday afternoon, and several men who went to the rescue, also found themselves in trouble. The girl, was caught in the undercurrent and disappeared. -The body has not yet. been recovered. •The men succeeded in getting out of the water. ■ ; ~ ..-,'..;... :,/,.. ~".-,. ,.-,-,' -' '••■'■ ; "-' ." ' Later. The body of Miss Douglas, who was drowned in the Hutt River on Saturday, was recovered this morning. ;