ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
(Per Press Association.) Christchurch, September 26. A body, supposed to be that of Captain McDowell, of the schooner Bell Flower, which was wrecked off Bank’s Peninsula on July 24, was found on Saturday by one of the Kinloch settlers. The body, which was in an advanced state of decomposition and minus the head and one arm, was washed up on the beach in Tumbledown Bay, the scene of the wreck. It is surmised that the body had been pinned under the wreckage, which was washed into a small cave, and the continual washing of the sea had released it. Constable Whatman, of Little River, went over on Sunday morning, and with Mr J. McQueen, of Kinloch, buried the late captain’s body close to the scene of the wreck.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 36, 27 September 1911, Page 4
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