AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22744, 3 December 1935, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

DROWNING TRAGEDIES FIVE DEATHS ON SUNDAY MELBOURNE, December 2. Five young people.,lost their lives .in the water yesterday. Two sisters and a boy were drowned at Elwood, the other tragedies occurring in the Yarra River and in the dam at Kileunda. FIRE DESTROYS HOMESTEAD SYDNEY, December 2. The famous Wanganella homestead near Deniliquin, which cost £20,000 to build, was destroyed by fire. A falling wall seriously injured three firemen. THE STRATHFIELD CASE SYDNEY, December 2. (Received . Dec. 2, at 11 p.m.) At the Criminal Court to-day Frank Howard Jones, aged 20, labourer, was convicted of wounding Allan Clarke with intent to murder him. Mr Justice Halse Rogers recorded the death sentence. Jones* held up the station master, Mr Arthur Jay, at North Strathfield suburban railway station at midnight and demanded the booking office takings.' Jay told the intruder he had no money and no keys, whereupon a shot was fired in his direction. This attracted two porters, one of whom, Mr Allan Clarke, defied the bandit, and was shot in the abdomen. A few weeks later a mysterious explosion occurred at a powder magazine in the municipal quarry at Concord, and Jones was found terribly injured. When he was being rescued the police found a loaded revolver and an unloaded one not far from him. He told the police that he attempted to enter the shed containing explosives to sleep when he was blown into the quarry, which is 30 feet deep and full of rocks. / , RYAN ACQUITTED SYDNEY, December 2. (Received Dec. 2, at 11.15 p.m.) At the quarter sessions Joseph Harold Ryan was acquitted of having stolen £4703 from the Mudgee mail train on April 8, 1930, while armed. An important Crown witness failed to appear at this trial, and Ryan was discharged. RECEPTION TO ACTRESS SYDNEY, December 2. (Received Dec. 2, at 11.15 p.m.) Miss Helen TwcVetrees received an enthusiastic welcome to-day despite a heavy thunderstorm which soaked hundreds of her admirers who lined the route to the wharf. Her car was mobbed and the police had to form a cordon before she could get away. DOCTOR CRITICALLY INJURED SYDNEY, December 2. (Received Dec. 2, at 11.30 p.m.) Upon completion of a sightseeing flight over Sydney to-day, Dr W. L. Sleight, who is surgeon on the Orient liner Oronsay. unwittingly walked beneath the revolving propeller of-the aeroplane. He was struck down and critically injured.