TRAGEDY AT SEA.
AUCKLAND, December 7. Particulars of the circumstances in which Trooper K. A. Bayno. of the Wellington Mounted Kifles, lost his life were received on the arrival of the Ruahine. When the steamer was about 150 miles, from Fitoairn Island on the evening of Saturday, November 25 a baby named Theodore Edward Austin aged two years and ten months, while alone in a cabin crawled to a port hole, through which it fell into the sea. Trooper Bayne, who was leaning over the rail above the cabin, evidently saw the child fall for ho at once jumped overboard to attempt a rescue. Illuminated buoys were thrown overboard, and emergency lifeboats were quickly launched, but a lengthy search failed to discover either the baby _or his would-be rescuer. The place was infested by sharks, some 10ft long following the lifeboat.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3274, 13 December 1916, Page 48
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141TRAGEDY AT SEA. Otago Witness, Issue 3274, 13 December 1916, Page 48
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