DOUBLE FATALITY AT GISBORNE

West Coast Times, 12 April 1912, Page 2

DOUBLE FATALITY AT GISBORNE

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GISBORNE, April 11

A sad double fatality occurred here to-day, resulting in the death of an unknown man and boy named Gordon Brown. It appears that the man and Gordon Brown and another hoy named Frederick Allen, were lishing on the Groyne, when a heavy sea swept them into the water. Allen was rescued by means of a life-line thrown by a man named George, Cosell. A dredge hand, named Hewitt Dow* 1 glas, pluckily dived into the boiling surf and attempted the rescue of Brown. The gallant swimmer reached him hut was unable to bring him ashore, as ho was entangled in the fishing line ho had been using and Douglas had to let go in order to save himself.

The unknown man is about thirty years of age, and his identity is unknown up to the present. Deceased, Brown, is a son of respectable parents. Up to a late hour the bodies had not been recovered. The accident has cast quite a gloom over the town.

LATER PARTICULARS,

GISBORNE, April 11

A man named Goatlcy, who has been employed as wharf labourer is missing from the Strand Cafe, where he has been staying, and as it is known he intended going fishing this morning, it is almost certain he was the unknown victim of the drowning fatality at Groyne.

Goatley is supposed to have come from Melbourne and has been in Gisborne only about five weeks.