IROWNING FATALITY.

North Otago Times, 12 April 1912, Page 1

IROWNING FATALITY.

Per Press Association. Uisi/orne, Aj.nl U. A tead double fatality occurred today,, resulting in tua ueatu 01 an unknown uau and a Loy named Gordon Drown, it appears the man (.nd Gordon Brown and auotta boy named Frederick AiUn were flthin feon ths gioyue when a heavy tea sweptpthem into the water. Ailsn was rescued by nKans oi a We line thrown by a man named George Cosell. A dredge band named Hewitt Douglas pluckily divei iuto the 10111115 tfurf and .attempted the rescue oi Brown. He reached him, but wad unable to bring him ashore, as be was entangled in the fishing line ha' had been using, and Douglas had n let him go in order to savj himself. The unknown man dsi atout 20,' years of age, and his identity is unknown up to the present. Deceased Brown h a son of respected parents. ' Up to a late hour the bodies had not teen recovered. The accident cast (juite a gloom over the town. A man named Goatley, who has been employed' as a wharf laborer, is mißßing from the Strand Cafe, where he has been staying, and as it is known he intended going fishing this morning it is almost certain lie was (he unknown victim of the drowning fatality at the groyne. Goatley is supposed to have come from Melbourne, and has been in Gisborne about Aw'weeks,