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Show DROWNED IN HOBBLE CHEEK. Sad Fato or Bernard Bartlctt oi Springvlllc. A sad accident occuircd here this afternoon, by which Bernard Bartletti aged 10. lost his life in tho seething waters of Hobblo creoic. Tho facts is shrouded in mystery, but tho facts are known are as follows: Young Bartlett and his small brother about 5 yuars of ape, had boon down nt tliu creek, near their homo in tho First ward, and hud returned to tho house. Tho filler boy was last seen alive about 3 o'clock, and it is supposed that ho Immediately Im-mediately returned to the creek after leaving his brother. Ho was next seen, a corpse floating In tho stream, by Dcvero Child nhout an hour later. The latter inn for assistance, and got Alf Wright, who pulled the body out or tho water nearly u tnllo below the place where he evidently fel) in. Bartlett's face was badly bruised, nnd It was evident that Rome klcd of a struuglo hud taken place. The theory Is that tho boy. who was an epileptic, hud taken a lit uud fallen ou his face on tho rocks at tho bottom of tho creek. On a previous occasion the young mun had fallen in tho creek In a Qt, but hud escaped Injury. The lad's futbor Is working in Tintlc, but was telephoned for and wll bo homo tomorrow. No inquest was hold. For a time it wus feared that tho smaller lad had shared his brother's fate, having been, in the excitement, overlooked ut home. Tho oldest son of this athlcted fumlly died of typhoid fever lust year. SprlnnvMe corru-nondcoco corru-nondcoco Herald, April 20. |