MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION
INJURED MAN IN QUARRY PISTOLS FOUND NEARBY SYDNEY, July 28. Detectives are investigating a mysterious explosion at the powder magazine on the bank of the municipal quarry at Concord suburb, and the presence of a man, terribly injured, in the quarry on Saturday night. When- the man was being rescued thi- police, found a loaded revolver and also an unloaded revolver not far from the victim, whose face and body were severely battered and burned, even his clothes smouldering, although ho was still conscious and is noi expected to live. The man told the police that lie attempted to enter the shed containing explosives to sleep, when ho was blown into the quarry, which is 30 feet docp and is full of rocks.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18770, 29 July 1935, Page 7
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