WAIRARAPA TRAGEDY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 8

WAIRARAPA TRAGEDY

BOTH BODIES FOUND ONE LOCATED BY ’PLANE [ Per Press Association J CARTERTON, June 15. The search for the missing bodies of the youths drowned at Whareroto yesterday was continued this morning, and one, that of Hector Donald, was recovered thirty yards from the shore, clad m a leather jacket and shirt. The theory is that he stripped off and went to the assistance of Murdoch McLeod. There was twenty feet of water at the spot where the body was recovered. The body was located by a ’plane driven by Mr. Keith McMaster, and was recovered by drags. The body of Murdoch McLeod was recovered shortly after noon, twenty yards from the other body on a line parallel with the shore, fully clothed except for gumboots, and wearing a loaded cartridge belt. ACCIDENTAL DROWNING VERDICT AT INQUEST [ Ter Tress Association, j MASTERTON, June 15. A verdict of accidental drowning was returned to-night at cbe inquest concerning the deaths of Hector Sinclair Donald and Norman Murdock McLeod, who lost their lives on Saturday night while on a <luck-sho'»t;ng expedition ar Kahutara. Buth bodies were ! recovered to-day. I It is surmised that their boat capsized and although they made a gali lant fight to reach the she re, were i overcome with r.jld and d-.iwned ' The funeral of the will take ! place to morrow afternoon. WORKER KILLED CRUSHED BY FALL OF EARTH ( Per Press Association. ) OAMARU, June 15. While working for the Public Works Department at an excavation in the main highway this morning for a subway at the Deborah level crossing, Mr Robert Alfred Warrington wu> crushed by a fall of earth, death b«Jng practically instantaneous. Deceased, aged 36, was a married man with three children. He resided at Weston. FALL FROM TREE MAN FATALLY INJURED ( Per Press Association. > PALMERSTON N.. June 15. | Mr Richard Harrison, married, aged 31, butcher, who was severed* injured in a fall from a tree at I’ahiatua on I Thursday, died in hospital this morn- i i)) g. FOUND DYING ‘ YOUNG FARM LABOURER ■ I Per Press Association. ] INVERCARGILL June 15. A youth named Gordon Horueiss i Bradshaw, aged 17, whose patents live in Dunedin, was found in a dying condition last evening. He w;»? employed 3s a farm labourer for R. W Williams, of Awarua Plains, ami was heard groaning in his room. A doctor was ; summoned but before he arrived the ” youth died.

FALL DOWN WELL MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED ( Per Press Association. ) NEW PLYMOUTH. June 15. Falling 70 feet down a well whit-n he was digging at Huinga. neai Stratford, to-day, J. J. Seheubc-r suffered a fractured left leg, an injury to an eye. and severe shock. His audition was reported by the Stratford Hospital tonight to be serious. Scheuber was about to d.scend the well on a rope operated bv a windlass. His head had not disappeared below the ground level when the windlass broke and Scheuber crashed (he full 70 feet to the bottom of the shaft. Help was immediately forthconu .j», but the first attempt to raise Scheuber to the surface by the attachment ot straps to the rope was without Further help was summoned, but it was ! not til! an hour after his fall that the 1 injured man, suffering intern-e agony in the shallow water in the well, was brought to the ground lev?) and hurried to hospital. ,