TWO PERSONS DROWNED.

Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17386, 26 March 1928, Page 5

TWO PERSONS DROWNED.

MAN AND WOMAN. AT TITAHI BAY. , § BATHERS OUT OF DEPTH^ '.Jjy Telegraph—-Press - WELLINGTON, March 26. , ■ t A double drowning accident occur- ■■-■/?-. red at Titahi Bay on Sunday after- :"" noon, Miss Ellen Downey, aged 25, and Mr. Joseph Pope, aged 26, both of Wellington, losing their lives. : .; Miss Downey and Mr. Pope went in •'ss for a bathe at the bay at about two '; o'clock, and had been in the water .; about 20 minutes when they got out of y' their depth. With another bather, ';• Miss Skews, they were carried out to- ? wards the open sea. Mr. Pope tried to J save Miss Downey and, in doing so, -' got into difficulty. < . '.'-■■';• Messrs. Thomas and Gifford Russell,, j George Ward and Wallace Thomson :.].-). went to the rescue, but were/unable to. .;;•': save Miss Downey and* Mr. Pope. " One of the men caught Miss Downey, :J. t but she slipped from his grasp. T ' Miss Skews was also in difficulties, r ' but was brought to the shore. The-.." rescuers, with an improvised life-line, -:: dragged Mr. Pope's body to the shore,-. where every effort to revive life was * treid, but without success. -./;-; • Miss Downey was swept beyond the reach of the party and the body has not yet been recovered. DETAILS OF FATALITY. ~ ~~ """""™* (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March. 26,. ,} The victims of the drowning accident ■• * got out of their depth and with a Miss Skews were carried towards open J water. Four men went to the rescue - ',";■' and one got hold of the girl, but she slipped from his grasp. Miss Skews narrowly missed sharing the face of her friends. The rescuers managed to y drag Pope to the shore, but all effort's to restore him failed, .though quite a number of doctors were on the scene, and also a nurse, who gave great assistance. :•, ,< Mr. Templeton, step-father to Miss Downey, noticed something going on. /. on the beach and helped with an hnprovised life line for some time, jS ignorance of who were endangered till * Pope's body was carried past him;' Ward, one of the rescuers, almost .' came to grief and was much distressed. . : "■. 'Va At sunset an object was seen far out and a launch went off, but only found Miss Downey's bathing cap.