SHOT FROM A SWING
BOY'S WONDERFUL ESCAPE.
' -I sixteen-yeor-old boy of Campordown (N.S.W.) is lucky to bo. alive to : day. Hβ had a sensational experience which might easily have proved.fatal, but f with a bump on the back of hw ea<i. Uoyd was on a swing in ft local park, and when he worked it up as high a3 possible he lost his grip. <™i *{» thrown as fw nia catam.lt througthe air for a distance of about twenty-fno .. feet He struck a fence, and, smashing a wooden batten holding some wire ho went clean through to the other side. Even this bump did not stop Ins progress and nc was sent Hying a few more yards on the other side of llio fence. Hβ *as taken to the hospital, and treated for 11,0 bump on the head. , Ho suffered, too. from shuck, but lie quickly recovered.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 58, 3 December 1918, Page 6
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146SHOT FROM A SWING Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 58, 3 December 1918, Page 6
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