DOUBLE DROWNING FATALITY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11605, 12 April 1912, Page 2

DOUBLE DROWNING FATALITY.

(Pee Press Association.) Gisborne, April 11. A sad double fatality occurred to-day, resulting in the death of an unknown man and a boy named Gordon Browir. It appears that the man and Gordon Brown and another boy -named Frederick Allen were fishing on the groyne when a heavy sea swept them into the water. Allen was rescued by. means of a life-line thrown, by a man named George Cosell. A dredge hand named Hewitt Douglas pluckily dived into the boiling surf and attempted the rescue of Brown. He reached him, but wa.s unable to bring him ashore, as lie was entangled in the fishing line he had "been using, and Douglas had to let- him go in order to save himself. The unknown. man is about-20 years of age, and his identity is unknown up to the present. Deceased Brown is a son of respected parents. Up to a late hour the bodies had not been recovered. The accident cast quite a gloom over the town.

A man named Goatley, who lias been employed as a wharf laborer, is missing, from the Strand Cafe, where he has been staying, and as it is known he intended going fishing this morning it is almost certain he was the unknown victim of the drowning fatality at the groyne. Goatley is supposed to have come from Melbourne, and lias been in Gisborno about five weeks.