DRAMATIC RESCUE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 20 February 1935, Page 5

DRAMATIC RESCUE

Old Prospector Found Wandering in Kimberley Ranges

HAD EXISTED ON HORSE FLESH WATER SUPPLY EXHAUSTED (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). Received noon to-day. BRISBANE, To-day. A party of prospectors arriving at Mount Isa from Western Australia by car told the story of the rescue of an old prospector named Baynes, whom they found wandering in the Kimberley Ranges some weeks ago, and who had lived on raw meat he had cut from his dead horse.

The party first found the dead packhorse and the tracks of a second horse leading into the hills. Enlisting the aid of friendly aboriginals, the tracks were followed for 10 miles, when tlic party came on the second dead horse, from the rump of which slices of meat had been cut. Black boys who were leading. were suddenly fired on, and one was wounded in the leg. Two of the prospectors went to the blacks’ rescue, and they also come under a fusilade cf bullets. Next day tnc party found the old man; lying under some rocks. He was very weak and his water supply was exhausted. He said he had been living on the horse’s flesh, and explained that he fired because he thought he was being attacked by hostile natives.