GIRLS'S AWFUL DEATH
IMPALED OX GAP BEIN' STAKE. PLAYING “BLOND,IN” ON FENCE. _. _*r A. game of “Boudin” on a garden fence at Kogarah had. a tragic eliding (says the Sydney Telegraph). Hilda Al'ce 15arr.es, aged 9, with her little brother, was endeavoring to walk a'dug the top of the fence on Saturday afternoon, when she overbalanced and was impaled cn a garden stake.
The child died in the St. George District Hospital early- the next morning. The unfortunate grl, it is stated, was trying to get from one end of the fence to the other at the backyard of their borne, which is situated in English Street, Kogarah, She suddenly slipped and then toppled forward into a neighbor’s yard. She fell heavily on to the stake, which penetrated her stomach for a distance ot about fi foot.
Her frightened, brother ran for assistance. and the St. George Ambulance was called, and treated then girl, afterwards talcing her to thehcsp'tal.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9947, 26 February 1925, Page 2
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