YOUNG MAN'S ORDEAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1927, Page 16

YOUNG MAN'S ORDEAL.

BODY BKOKEN IN BELTING. DYIXt; CRY FOR HELP. i From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDXEY, February I>. A dramatic *tory of a young man's agonising efforts to oiitaii. help when iie was critically injured in an accirh>:r. comes from Cooinmon, Western Xow South Wale-. His last speech alive was when, wracked with the pain of hiwounds, he <.-nt an agoni-e I cry for help to a neighbour hy telephone. Xeil Finer, aped 21. an only .-on. was the victim of the ea-e. and i. ■ died from hiinjurie-. He v.i- working alone on liifatlier'- property, when lie was caught in the bolting ~f a wheat grader, and whirled round until hi- dying body waMliashed again-t -on:e part of the engine and the machine stopped of k- own accord. The young man'- po-ithm was pathetic, lii- leg almost wrenched oil', ami bleeding from a hundred other wound-, he wa- caught there in the .-hod. Himother and sister had left the night •fore for Sydney, while hi- father was at a neighbouring homestead. And the -hed in which he lay was more than 200 yard- from the hou-e. where he knew the telephone, hi- only hope in the cireum-tam-e-. wa< connected. >o ,ie -et out on the painful journey to the hou<e. Xo one. of curse, actually .-aw him make that journey, but hi- progre-s over the rough ground was only too apparent. lie was bleeding profusely, and had to dra himself on his hands. To open the door of the house must have been n ordeal in itself, and it was obvious that he had found the need for rest, or collapse, several times before he did turn the handle. Slowly he covered the distance to 'he telephone, and then telephoned to Mr-. Crifliths', a neighbour. his pain-racked voice informing her of his plight, and imploring her to get medical assistance asoon a- she could. She sent a man away on horseback at once for the doctor in Coolamon, and Doctor Buchanan raced out in his car. He found young Finer, uneonseiounndei- the toleph. . where he had fallen after his effort to summon :i<-i,t-ance. Patching up the terrible wounds. the doctor took the y..,.ng man into the local ho-pital, where an operation was performed at onto. But Finer died without regaining consciousness.