CAR BLOWN TO PIECES
SYDNEY FARMER'S DEATH THEORIES OF DETECTIVES (Received January 17, G. 35 p.m.) SYDNEY. Jan. 17 In a terrific explosion in a motorcar at Hyde, a suburb of Sydney, Mr. Jack E. Sabine, aged 40, a poultry farmer, was killed instantly and the car was reduced to an irreparable tangle. Detectives believe that gelignite was connected 'to the battery of Mr. Sabine's car, and that when he applied his foot to the self-starter the contact caused the explosion. It is considered possible, however, that a fuse may have been used.
An employee on the farm, who was in a near by building, was hurled to the floor when the explosion shook the whole building. Another employee stated that the rear window of the car sailed through the air, landing on the roof of a hosise 120 yards away. One mudguard was found later near one of the fowl coops.
Mr. Sabine's wife, it is reported, tftld the police that her husband had been suffering from the effects of malaria. Mr. Sabine was a well-known Turf identity in New Guinea.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22320, 18 January 1936, Page 13
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