INJURED IN A QUARRY
SEQUEL TO EXPLOSION SYDNEY SUBURB MYSTERY (Received J air 28. 11-35 p.m.) r SYDNEY. July 28 Detectives are investigating a mysterious explosion at a powder magazine on the hank of a municipal quarry at Concord, a suburb of Sydney, and the presence of a man terribly injured 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 had attempted to enter a shed containing explosives in order to sleep there when he was blown into the quarry, which is 30 feet deep and full of rocks.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22173, 29 July 1935, Page 9
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138INJURED IN A QUARRY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22173, 29 July 1935, Page 9
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