A FATAL ACCIDENT.
A HYSTERICAL' LADY PREVENT THE SAVING OF LIFE. [BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Chkistchurch, Saturday. An inquest was held to-day on James Ferguson, who was drowned in the Avon yesterday. Two young men named Beck and Simmons deposed that they were going up the river with a party of ladies in the boat when they saw deceased lying drunk on the bank with his feet in the water. They removed him half-a-dozen yards from the water's edge. On returning threequarters of an hour later they saw him in the water. He appeared dead. They went and informed the police before getting him out, because they thought he must be dead, and because one of the ladies nearly went into hysterics. When the police took the man out he was dead. The Coroner (Mr. Beetham) said it was the most stupid thing he ever heard of. They should have taken the man out of the water, and given him a chance. What was the ladies' agitation compared with the chance of saving a man's life ? The jury returned a verdict of " Found drowned," with a rider censuring the young men for want of thought in not removing the body when first discovered in the water.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9023, 9 April 1888, Page 5
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205A FATAL ACCIDENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9023, 9 April 1888, Page 5
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