CHILD DROWNED
PLAYING ON RIVER BANK BODY CAUGHT IN SNAG. Per Press Association. GISBORNE, January 20. While his two elder brothers were swimming in a river at Muriwai, James Desmond McCabe, a four-year-old child, playing on the bank, must have fallen into the water. His brothers, aged 12 and 7, missed him when they lett the water, hut, thinking he had gone back to the house, went away through the paddocks and played. After they had been playing for some time, they .began to wonder where their young brother was. Eventually they saw his body caught in a snag in the creek. Lite was extinct. The fatality occurred on Mr R. K. Murphy’s property, near Muriwai, where the father of the children was working. Mrs McCabe was in the house, and was totally unaware that anything was amiss.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12660, 21 January 1927, Page 6
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