CHILD FOUND IN SWAMP
Immersed In Water For Two Hours (N.Z. Press Association— Copyright) SYDNEY, September 17. A two-year-old boy stood for two hours in a swamp with water up to his mouth at Woollamia, near Nowra, on the south coast of New South Wales. The boy was dragged, blue with cold, from the swamp and rushed 10 miles by ambulance to Nowra. He became unconscious in the ambulance but recovered after treatment at the hospital. This afternoon the boy. John Thomason, the youngest of eight children, played happily with his brothers and sisters. John’s brother, William, aged 14, and the family’s cattle dog, Crusoe, found John in the swamp after he had been missing for (three hours.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29004, 19 September 1959, Page 11
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