CLIMB DOWN CLIFF
PLUCKY BOY OF NINE
TRIED TO RESCUE MOTHER
United Press Association—By Electric Tele* graph—Copyright. SYDNEY, 29th April. "The body of Mrs. Vera Bailey, aged 36, was found impaled on a tree on tha mountain side near Katoomba. Her son. "William, aged 9, was discovered on a rocky ledge nearby with his hip broken. He was unconscious.
The pair had fallen nearly 600 feet at Echo Point, a favourite resort. They had been missing since yesterday afternoon. The rescuers with considerable difficulty recovered the mother's rnuti* lated body. Lately she had had a nervous breakdown. When the injured boy recovered consciousness he told of his mother's disappearance while he was absent playing about a swing.
He found his mother's hat on a seat above the cliff. He called her and received no response. He began to climb down the cliff, but slipped and fell many feet. Thea he saw her body in a tree in a chasm below.
Pluckily he tried to reach her, but fell twenty feet to another ledge, and broke his hip. He remembered no more. The boy spent the night in bitter cold and sleet. Ho was found by park rangers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 100, 30 April 1931, Page 11
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197CLIMB DOWN CLIFF Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 100, 30 April 1931, Page 11
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