FAMILY’S BAD LUCK
MEMBERS IN HOSPITAL. Three brothers—Ernest, Harry and George Sheppeard—are inmates of Lithgow Hospital, in New South Wales, Harry and George are being treated for illness, and Ernest, who was formerly heavyweight boxing champion of Australia, was admitted suffering from the loss of a portion of his little finger, the result of a mishap with an axe. A fourth brother, Cyrus Sheppeard, who was injured in a coalmining accident, where an exploding detonator blew oft two fingers, was discharged recently. William Sheppeard, father of the four men, was severely injured at the same mine, his arm having to be amputated.
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Southland Times, Issue 22131, 27 September 1933, Page 8
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102FAMILY’S BAD LUCK Southland Times, Issue 22131, 27 September 1933, Page 8
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