SAD BATHING FATALITY.
THREE BOYS DROWNED.
From an unexplained cause three young boys, named Richard Norman Wildie, Willian James McDougall, and Hyram Eugene Draper, who were bathing at Port Melbourne last week, were all drowned. The only witness to tho fatality was was Wildie's little brother, who ran home and told Mrs. Wildie that the' thre had gone into the water midway between the railway and the town piers, and that they had all disappeared. In great distress Mrs. Wildie ran to tho beach," and there she found her own child's clothes and further on wero those belonging to his companions. But of the children there was no sign. Willing assistance was given, but the searchers were hampered by the darkness, and it was not until next day that the bodies were recovered. ' ; ;'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14930, 1 March 1912, Page 8
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133SAD BATHING FATALITY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14930, 1 March 1912, Page 8
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