A particularly sad accident was discovered to-day, when the body of Thomas Herbert Johnston, aged 17 months, was found in a well at Kurow. An inquest will be held to-morrow. -Oamaru Mail, 13/8/1915.
Our Hakataramea correspondent writes — A rather sad drowning fatality occurred here on Friday morning in which a little boy named Johnston, aged seventeen months, lost his life. The mother left the little fellow at the back of the house while she attended to some household duties and when she returned she found him lying in a shallow well nearby. Mr Hugh Barclay did all in his power to restore life by means of artificial respiration, but when the doctor arrived he pronounced life extinct. The sympathy of all is extended to the parents in their sad bereavement. -Oamaru Mail, 16/8/1915.
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