DROWNED IN A DAM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 7 August 1941, Page 7

DROWNED IN A DAM

FATE OF TWO BOYS Sydney, July 31. Two brothers, John David Nash, aged 11. and Leslie Lionel Nash, aged) five, were drowned in a small clam j seven feet deep in the yard of a house j in Fairfield. The hoys were the sons of a widow. Mrs Eileen Nash* They J had spent Wednesday night with their j mother's sister, Mrs Barker, who has j six young children. Mrs Barker said that about 1 p.m. j John and Leslie Nash went out to j play. “When I looked through my side j window I saw the youngest boy float- j ing on top of the deepest part of the j darn,” she said. “When I reached the j darn I was just able to reach him and j pull him out. He was then either dead ut unconscious. I placed him on the j bank of the dam and ran for a neigh- j hour.” It was assumed that the elder boy j had also fallen into the dam. and a i Fairfield fire engine was brought to pump out the water. About, three hours later his body was found lying on the j bottom. A doctor applied resuscitation ;