BOY DROWNED
KERRYTOWN FATALITY A verdict that the cause of death was asphyxiation due to drowning was returned by the Coroner, Mr C. W. Wood, at the inquest, which was held at Kerrytown yesterday, into the cause of the death of Richard Bruce Williams, aged 9 years 7 months, who jumped into an irrigation ditch to rescue a small boy who at the time was in apparent difficulties. The Coroner expressed his sympathy with the parents.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21531, 19 December 1939, Page 8
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76BOY DROWNED Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21531, 19 December 1939, Page 8
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