MAN AND BOY DROWNED.

Waipukurau Press, Volume 4, Issue 379, 13 April 1912, Page 2

MAN AND BOY DROWNED.

SWEPT INTO THE SURF AT GISBORNE.

Gisborne, April 11.

A sad double fatality occurred to-day, resulting in the dtath of an unknown man and a boy named Gordon Brown.

It appears that the man and Gordon Brown, with another boy named Frederick Allen, were fishing 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 Douglas pluckily dived into the boiling surf and attempted to rescue Brown. Douglas reached Brown, bnt was unable to bring him ashore, as he was entangled in the fishing line he had been using, and Douglas had to let him go in order to save himself.

The unknown man is dbout/30 years of age, and his identity is unknown up to the present. Up to a late hour the bodies had been recovered.

The accident has cast quite < a gloom over the town. Later.

A man named Goatley, who had been employed as a wharf labourer, is missing from the Strand Cafe,' where he had been staying, and as it is known that he intended to go fishing this morning, it is almost certain that he was the unknown victim of the drowning accident at the groyne. Goatley is supposed to have come from Melbourne, and has been in Gisborne about five weeks.