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Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 79 Numéro 6

Date 2 décembre 1891
Comté York
Lieu Fredericton
Journal The Gleaner

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A sad case of drowning occurred on Scotch Lake, York Co. yesterday afternoon. Alexander ROSBOROUGH and George ROSBOROUGH, sons of John ROSBOROUGH and Mary ROSBOROUGH of Scotch Settlement, went out on the ice of the lake to get a boat which had been frozen in. When some distance out the ice gave way and both went into the lake. Alexander succeeded in getting out unaided and on sound ice for the time. Two ladies on the shore, observing George's struggle for life and Alexander's inability to reach him, came daringly to the rescue and succeeded in pulling him from his perilous position in a state of exhaustion. Alexander then endeavoured to walk to the shore, but before he had covered five rods, he went down again and never rose to the surface alive, carried under the ice no doubt by the current. An alarm was at once given and the neighbors turned out to grapple for the body which in a short time was recovered by Moses FLEMMING. Deceased was 17 years of age and the eldest son. George, whose condition is yet serious, is a little younger. Mr. Rosborough is a brother of Mrs. Thos. PORTER of Fredericton city, whom deceased visited about three weeks ago. The remains will be interred in the family lot at Prince William.

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