MOOSLER

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Marin Journal
Thursday, June 1, 1924
Page 1

Boy Drowns While On Vacation

Tragedy cast its pall of gloom over the happy colony of little summer sojourners at Hill Farm last Saturday when Fred Moosler, 13-year-old vacationist, lost his life in a swimming pool a half mile from the institution.

Word was sent to Coroner J. Ray Keaton immediately and with several men to aid him he went to the pool to recover the body. Later a half dozen men from the telephone company arrived and added their efforts. One of them succeeded in finding and bringing to shore the body of the dead boy. In the hope of restoring life they worked on the body for several minutes, but life was extinct. The body had been in the water three hours.

The boy was bathing with a number of his small companions, under the supervision of a Hill Farm attaché, who had just directed that the boys leave with him and return. The dead boy and two others were late in leaving the water. Moosler dived in from a raft, apparently with the intention of swimming to shore. The supervisor heard cries from the other two and turned to see the third boy sinking. He plunged in to rescue the lad, who had disappeared from sight. The pool was 18 feet in depth.

The dead boy, one of five children and crippled in one leg, lived with his parents at 127 San Carlos avenue, San Francisco. He had been given a two-weeks’ outing by “The Goodfellows,” a charitable organization maintained by the San Francisco Call. Coroner Keaton took charge of the body and shipped it to San Francisco for burial.