BATHING FATALITY.
(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, last night. Tlie circumstances under which Joseph Clarke and Charles Turvey met . their deaths while surf-bathing at St. Clair on Saturday were inquired into by Mr H. Y. Widdowson. (acting coroner) this afternoon. Alexander Leslie Thomson gave evidence that when the alarm was given, he swam out to the rescue, and Turvey appeared to be holding Clarke up. Witness separated them, and a man named Arthur W. Easther then came out. Turvey grasped Easther and pulled him under water. Thinking Easther had got Turvey, Thomsdn got -hold of Clarke, and tliey were hauled ashore on the lifeline. There was only a slight backwash. The life-line Avas drawn in very quickly, dragging them under water. " Easther stated tliat Turvey pulled him under twice, and witness cou'd do nothing with him. He stayed- for a while longer, but, feeling exhausted,'- he had to make for the* shore. Turvey' s body was washed up immediately afterwards. • A verdict of accidental drowning was returned. Mi* Widdowson referred to the practice of people pretShding they were in difficulties, and described it as little short of criminal. He also referred in highly commendatory terms to the action of Thomson and 'Easther.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 12963, 23 January 1913, Page 2
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