XMAS BRINGS TRAGEDIES
THREE DEAD SEVERAL INJURED. BOY FALLS TiII?OUGH SKYLIGHT. - SYDNEY, Dec. 26. Three dead and 31 injured is the roll of Christmas Day casualities in Sydney and suburbs. Two: of the deaths are the result of motor accidents, the third being that of a fettler who was run clown by a train. Ope of tlie injured men had his right eye torn out when a car crashed into a tram. Several others are in a critical condition.
Tragedy brought a sad Christmas to the Wright family of Merrickville. Leo, aged 11 } received a .cricket ball from his father as a Christmas present. A few honrg later, while the lad was playing with other boys, the ball was hit on to the roof of a factory, and while endeavouring to recover it Wright crashed through the skylight to the concrete floor 50 feet below. Ambulance officers smashed in the door ami found the lad de,ad.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 8, 27 December 1928, Page 3
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