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I got hold of him, but I had to run down several ten feet
before I caught hold of him. I lifted him up out of the
water. I had to go into the water myself first and I was
washed down myself and until I had gone a long distance
I could not get my feet. This was before I got hold of the
boy. I then took him up the side of the nullah and I
carried him on my back to his mother.
me
NO X X.
Last witness went with
P.34.
No.3 bridge.
2.35.
sd. Yung Sou.
sd. E.W. Hamilton, P.M., 7/8/34.
I am an accountant employed by
Sidney Bowles, sworn, ds:-
the Military Authorities and I live at 3 D Block Kennedy Road On 22nd June at about 10 past 3 p.m. I was walking up Murray
Path from queen's Road. I had gone about 50 yards 30 yards
above where the nullah goes under ground my attention was
arrested by a crowd on the bridge where the sentry stand.
I looked into the nullah and I saw a European girl being
washed down the nullah under the bridge. I jumped into the
nullah and by the time I was there she was on me. I tried
to hold her but a N.A.A.F.I employee and a European boy
together bumped into me. We were then being all washed down
the nullah. I was lying in the for in of a Y trying to check
progress, head on to the current. Then finding I could not
check progress I tried to lie across the nullah at right
angles. At the deepest point the water was about 20 inches
deep. Then I felt another bump. I don't know what it was.
Mary Pine was washed over my feet- the little boy was washed
over my body. I had recognised the N.a.a.F.I employee and
Mary fine by that time but not the little boy. I recognised
the N..A.F.I employee by his uniform only. When I was lying
in the nullah altogether I felt three bumps.
The first was
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