TWO LONELY DEATHS
Sydney,' June 12. 'J.lio deaths of two old miners ha.v» been reported to tho police tinder rather tracic circumstances. Henry Goodfellow, of Bobby Whitlow, whore ho has been camped for a number of years, eking out an existence as a fossickor, must have been dead about a. fortnight when. th» body was found by a neighbour. Ho was a Tory old. man, and lived entirely lo himself. About .£lO was found on the body. Death resulted probably from heart failure.
The other chso was that of Uichard Martin, aeaorally known as , "Cobar Dick." Hβ was quite a.n identity in the aiming community, and well advanced in years. A neighbour, not having seen him for about a fortnight, went to his nut, and found that ho was dead and had tho top of his head blown off by a discharge from a gun, to tho trigger of which a string had been tied.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3114, 19 June 1917, Page 7
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