AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 58, 6 May 1924, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

CAMP TRAGEDY. BOY'S FATAL BURNS. _ Sydney, April 25. A camp in which three boys were sleeping at South Creek, Dee Why, caught aWJJfcon Tuescfty night, and the lads were severely burnt. The three lads, with several other boys, who were all caddies at the Manly Coif. Club, had gone to South Creek for the Easter holidays, it is thought that they went to sleep, leaving a lamp or candle burning, which set fire to the side of the tent. Georce Marshall, Pged 14, of Pittwater Eoad, Manly, who was severely burnt ahout the body, died in Manly Hospital yesterday morning. He is the second of the boys to succumb to his injuries. Norman Carter, aged 9, of Pittwater Road, died in hospital on Wednesday morning. The third boy, Arthur Carter, aged 14, is still in a. .serious condition.

ELECTROCUTED ON A ROOF.

Sydney, April 24

Yesterday afternoon James Gill, aged 45, an electrician, was engaged in repairing some electrical wires on the roof of a cottage in The Avenue, Hurstville. He raised a sheet of iron, and was groping through the aperture to locate the wires when his hand came in contact with a live wire. He was killed instantly. The sheet of iron falling back into place gripped his arm, and prevented the body from falling off the roof. A doctor was promptly summoned and pronounced life extinct. The body was removed to deceased's home.

Sporting. zbz mmhmm At the Sydney yearling sales just concluded 615 horses were sold, realising 132,342 guineas.

WATCHMAN SHOOTS.

THIEVES DISTURBED.

Sydney, April 24

When NightwatcnmarJ Flemming fired a revolver shot in the direction of three men he saw attempting to Creak into premises occupied by the Sydney Shirt Factory, in Buckland Street, City, early yesterday morning, the men immediately decamped.

Flemming went after them, but in a minute they had disappeared from sight. He informed the police, anil Constables Anstill .ird Nealon made a .long and fruitless search for them.

Two men who were endeavoring to force the back door of a grocer's shop occupied by Thomas Linkenbah, at the corner of Lome Avenue and Anzac Parade, Kensington, early yesterday morning, were disturbed by the occupant. The men dashed across the yard, and, running into Addison Street, leaped into a motor car that was standing nearby. Linkenbah followed them, but the car drove off at top speed before ho could get near the suspects.