DROWNING TRAGEDIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14235, 1 March 1917, Page 9

DROWNING TRAGEDIES.

FATHKK. SON, AXD DAIUIHTKIt. JXVERKLL. February 19. Mary Ann Hautshaw (18), and her brother, Frederick (9), went into the Macintyre river on viinday afternoon for :i. swim. ' Miss Jlansbaw, w)ii> conld not swim, got beyond her depth. .She called .to her father, Mr John Thomas Hanshaw (43), who wa« lying on the bank. . He plunged into the water. The »irl ' clutched him and botjj were thowned m about 20ft of water. Mystery surrounds the drowning of the boy. iSp'far as is at present known, no one .saw. him fall into the water, and the body was found fully ,200 yards down the stream from, those of the father ami daughter, Tbe three bodies were over aii hour under water. Those of the father- and daughter w<?ie b* ought to the surface by 0. A. Poofe, while that of the boy was recovered about the aama twne by *W. J. Stibbing, a railway empjoyes, after repeated .diving. '"Both lather and daughter were of v splendid physique, alid the bodies were locked togetiier when brought to the surface. 'Die father's face showed severe abrasions, probably the result of striking the bottom* SYDNEY, 'February 19. ; Thomas Arthur Richmond {H) M-as playing with bj» sister m the yard oi . their parents' home, Canterbury, ye^terdjty afternoon. Tlieir mother warned them riot to ,go away. About haif an hour afterwards the little girl came runi^n«,' to her mother, greatly excited, and calK-d out, "Mother, Tommy fell into tlie river, and i» drowned. " The fri*' 1 took her mother W the bank of (book's 1 river, and showed her the spot where jjipr brother had fallen into the wat?i\ (Kftiest Lyons, who was handy, dived ,a*d recovered the body.

I M1.1.r.Ul KNK. Kebniary l!l. I 'llivuiiuli llui ra|isi/.ini^ of ;i. skill" lus'.r I'ort Melbourne, yesterday afternoon, Charles .lones (45). tramway employee, of Mast Hnm.-wick, and liiarles Lack 1 19) bootmaker, i>i Fontseray, were t drowned. William lleiuy Lack, father oi' tlie latter, and another son, James Liuk. and Henry Ifylaml. who wi'iv iilmi y of the parly, wore rescued by iislierni-'ii . alter beini^ 20 minute-: m the water. The accident -occurred on the return homo from a iishinjr excursion.