LOST IN BUSH

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 17, 15 August 1928, Page 6

LOST IN BUSH

ELDERLY WIDOW, - INTENSIVE SEARCH. MELBOURNE, August 7. Three hundred persons, ]inclu<Epg firemen, ministers of religion, boy scouts, and local townswomen spent last night seraching the Daylesford district i'or Mrs Elley Jackson, the) /0-year-oldt widciw of the former manager of the Ajax Central mine. Their efforts having proved ' unsuccessful, blaoktrackers will be employed in,the search to-day.

Mrs Jackson "has been mfssing since 11 o'clock on Thursday morning Accompanied by her daughter, M. v a Jackson was returning through tho bush" from TTpperary mineral springs', three miles from Daylesford. The daughter whs advised to go ahead, leaving herjnother, who had with her a black spaniel dog, to follow leisurely. When she did not arrive heme at nightfall Visits w|er© made to the homes of friends, but she had not been seen. At 11. p.m. the police were.-notified, and the firebell was rung. Search parties were organised, and the district, which is mostly scrub and forest, pitted with abandoned mining sbMts, was unsuccessfully searched until 3 a.m. VISITED A, FARMER: "'■ A further search was carried; out yesterday, when it was learned that Mrs Jackson, accompanied by her dog, had visited a,farmer at B.vsalt, six. mile s . from Daylesford, early on Thursday night, inquiring her way to town. As the nearest route nec...jiLated. tat cioss-iig of'Jim Crow Cxc k, ohe.Ttas adm°-d to go to Hepburn first. 'Some tracks led along this route, but they soon petered out', '

The searchers returned to the town in the evening. A further party left. Dayiesford last night, and despite heavy frost and intense cold, they worked over several miles of country by daylight to-day. An appeal was last night broadcast for searchers to take- up the work to-day, and it is probable that they will be sent from Melbourne. When the teachers of the technical school arrived at the school, yesterdayj there were.no scnolars, as they had all joined in the seaixh. . ;.t fot-nd. MELBOURNE, August 8. Mrs Jackson,, who .was lost in the bush near Dayiesford, has been found. At 4 p.m. searchers were guided to her by the barking of her dog, a spanieF. '

She is apparently suffering no harm but has been put to bed. Hundreds of searchers went out! I to search for Mr s Jackson, but for two diays they failed. It was only tiie barking of the dog-which led to her discovery in the thick bush.