BABY’S FATAL FALL
MOTHER .WITNESSES. TRAGEDY. |
LONDON,-, August ,’lO.
■ A i'mPthejL', watching from «u V» place among; tombstones .. . in a . monumental mason’s ’yard at Prescot, (Lancashire, yesterday saw- her baby s°-h brought up from a disused: quarry dead.; The child,. Leonard Hurst, aged four, ■fell' 'do Wit"the • •quarry'.i-wh'ilfe'-' playing.
He struck a ledge 150. feet below, and could be seen lying motionless. .Ladders - were ./..tied together . and lowered*'.but poUgemen','who 'Went down wore tin able to. teach . the child.,
Tii.gn,.-Mr,.Rigby*. tjio owner ..of ..the qpuiTy,. insisted ,on . being f astened to the end,: of . a chiin. He was -Jet down -to the ledge, A. tug, was felt,: by the ■ men ' .at., the top, and he was hauled up with the child in hi l 3 a,rna:si;, .. .V ■ The mothe r .,.-collapsed as-, he- reappeared.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1933, Page 2
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