SAD TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1931, Page 3

SAD TRAGEDY

IN BLUE MOUNTAINS

(Australian Press Association.)

SYDNEY, April 29

The body of Mrs Vera Bailey,, aged thirty-six, was found impaled on a tree on the mountainside at Kutoomba, in the Blue Mountains, West of Sydney. Her son, aged nine, was discovered on a rocky ledge nearby with his hip broken, and in an unconscious state. The pair had fallen nearly six- hundred' feet at Echo Point, which is a favourite resort^*. They had beervdiiissing since yesterday afternoon. The rescuers bad considerable difficulty in recovering the mother’s mutilated body. She had lately had a nervous breakdown.

BOY’S PLUCKY ATTEMPT

TO REACH HIS .MOTHER

SYDNEY, April 29

The injured son of the- Blue Mountain tragedy victim (Mrs /Bailey'), named William Bailey, is injured, hut has recovered Ho told the storv of his mother's, disappearance. He stated that she disappeared while lie was absent, playing about a. swing. He found his mother’s hat on a Heat above the cliff. He then called to her. There w a s iio response. The bov then began to climb down thv cliff.,-Ho fell many feet. Then lie saw her body in a tree in the chasm below. The bov pluckily tried to reach 'dherA He then, lell twenty feet over;another ledge and broke his liip. He remembered no more. The boy :spent the night in bitter cold’ and .sleet: He was found by the Park rangers to-day.