A STRANGE DEATH.
MAN DROWNED WHILE FISHING WITH NET.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, last night. On Saturday evening, a man named Samuel Griffiths, sexton at Addington Cemetery, went to New Brighton with two friends to fish in the surf. They wero dragging a trail net, and were about up to their shoulders in the water, when Griffiths, who was holding the spread, suddenly disappeared, and it is supposed that he got into a hole, and was carried away by the drawback, as he was never seen again. The body was washed up on the beach this morning, considerably mutilated by fish. Deceased was married, and leaves a widow and four young children.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 330, 3 February 1902, Page 2
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112A STRANGE DEATH. Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 330, 3 February 1902, Page 2
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