QUARRY MYSTERY
GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.
MAN TERRIBLY INJURED. (Received .9 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 28. Detectives are investigating a mysterious explosion in a gunpowder magazine on the banks of a municipal quarry at Concord, a suburb of Sydney, and the presence of a man terribly ijured in the quarry on Saturday night. When the man was being rescued, the police found a loaded revolver, also an unloaded revolver, not far from the . victim, whose face and body were severely injured and burned. Even his clothes were smouldering. He is still conscious, but is not expected to live. The injured man told the police he attempted to enter a shed containing explosives in order to sleep there, when he. was thrown into the quarry, which is 30 feet deep and full of rocks.
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Northern Advocate, 29 July 1935, Page 5
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130QUARRY MYSTERY Northern Advocate, 29 July 1935, Page 5
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