DEATH FROM THIRST AND EXPOSURE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 81, 7 April 1902, Page 2

DEATH FROM THIRST AND EXPOSURE.

SAD STORY FROM NOBTH

AUSTRALL-

ADELAIDE, March 28

The Commissioner Of Police has received information of two deaths from thirst and exposure in the Far North. In one case the victim, a man named Charles Clark, had been missing since January 26, Near Innamincka, on March 13, his-swag was found. There was evidence that Clarke had tried to bleed his horse with the intention of drinking its blood. The constable reported that Clarke's body had probably been covered by drift sand. In the other case, a shoemaker, aged about 50, whose name is unknoAvn, and who was doing odd jobs on his way up the route to Bii-dsville, in Queensland, was found alongside his swag on Goyder's La-o-oon. It was plain from all appearances that his had been a hard death from thirst. A third case occurred near Blumberg, on the roadside. Death, though due to natural causes, was accelerated by exposure. Deceased was a swagman about 55. . Some ladies saw him in the afternoon, and he said, "Ladies, I am very bad," and coughed violently. They asked him if he could walk to a house, and he replied, "No," but added, "If I could only get to some shed I would not trouble anybody. I'll die in half an.hour." The ladies .went for assistance, but the man was. dead when they returned. The letters HM conjoined were scratched on his quart pot.