TRAGEDY OF THIRST
PROSPECTORS ANTICIPATE
DEATH
PERTH, 9th November.' Searchers, after three days,/ discovered the dead bodies of the two men, Dyer and Raunio, who left Wiluna on a prospecting expedition, With their water supply exhausted and only salt lakes within reach, the men had drained the blood from a kangaroo. When that was finished they apparently decided to die together to,: escape the sufferings of thirst. * With their guns under their chins they faced each other and pulled the triggers. '
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Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 9
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81TRAGEDY OF THIRST Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 9
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