PRIEST DROWNED

Grey River Argus, 5 February 1941, Page 6

PRIEST DROWNED

4 In Rescuing Boy CANBERRA, February 1. A priest and a’ boy were drowned in the Cotter River, 14 miles from Canberra. The priest had made a valiant attempt to rescue the boy before sinking. The priest was the Rev. Father John McCusker, aged 40, of the Ro-, man Catholic Church at Bungendore, and the boy was Clifford Lee, aged 13. also of Bungendore. Lee and Fergus Campbell, aged 10, of Bungendore, were among seven boys taken by the priest on an outing to the Cotter picnic ground. When Lee and Campbell went paddling in the stream they stepped suddenly into a hole and were swept by the current into deep water. The priest went to the help of Lee. and Mrs May Fisk, of Narrabundi, courageously assisted Campbell into shallow water. When Mrs Fisk looked for the priest and the boy they had disappeared. Jhe bodies were recovered by the police.