BOY'S FATAL PRANK
" 1 heartily congratulate you on your splendid attempt to save the boy," the Camberwell deputy-coroner, Mr. Clarence Moran, told Police Constable Reginald Mounce, at an inquest on Alfred Charles Clark, aged 7. Playing with other boys on the hank of the Grand Surrey Canal at Camberwell, Clark boarded a barge, and when jumping to another fell into the water. A labourer working on some adjacent buildings plunged in, but could not find tho boy. Then a message was sent to the Camberwell police station, and Police Constable Mounce, arriving at the spot in a car, dived in fully clothed. After diving repeatedly he found tho boy underneath a barge.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22540, 3 October 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)
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