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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2425, 13 February 1909, Page 9 (Supplement)

DIVER’S TERRIBLE PREDICAMENT. A sailor namer Frank Itusseil lias been arrested in New York on a charge of attempted murder of a diver. His victim was George iSnnth, an expert who wias investigating a wreck 50ffc under water in the rapids of Hell Gate, Hast tßiver. temith found the air supply suddenly fail him, and no response being given to his signals.he gave himself up for lost. The cause of the air failure was high above hum in the bug, where. a man named Benjamin Parkins, who had been attending to the diver s pump, was engaged "in -a fierce light with Russell. The ipilmp lay -forgotten in the quarrel, which The entire orew were watching, regardless of til© suffocating diver. ißussell snatched, a crowbar, ■; struck ■ Parkins • senseless, leapt ashore, -and disappeared, fhcu one of the' crew remembered that Smith was under water, and Hie diver was drawn to th 6 • sui’f'aco seem 1 ugly dead. It nvas not until artificial respi ration had been tried for an hour and a half that he recovered.