ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 120, 13 July 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

~ ' (Per Press Association.) ■ •' vi '■- '''Wellington,;, July; 13, An inquest was heftl fo-day concerning the death by...drowning of Robert Humphries who arrived by the Corinthic on Tuesday-from London and who was seen struggling in the' water near the wharves the same night by two Greek sailors who assisted the seaman on a ferry steamer to launch a boat. They got the man out of the water but were too lae, efforts' to restore animation being futile. During the inquiry one of the Greeks was asked if he did not think of jumping to the rescue. He replied that he could swim but the drowning man might have pulled him down. He did not look for life-sav-ing apparatus. The coroner, returned a verdict of death by drowning but there was no evidence to show how deceased got into the water. Ho could not say any blame was' attachable to the Greek sailors for not jumping in to the rescue of a drowning man. It was entirely a matter for .the man’s own judgment, selfpreservation being the first law. Deceased was a married man 30 years of age and his wife and mother are due to arrive from England by the Arawa next month.