A PRESENTIMENT
MAN DESCRIBES BROTHER'S DEATH.
STRANGE CASE |N SYDNEY.
Received 12.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day
Thomas and William Irvine, twin brothers, aged forty, who were boru in New Zealand, had never been part-' ed until the week-end, when William's body was found in the Potts Hill Reservoir.
Throughout their school days in New Zealand they were in the same class and both were brilliant scholars. They came to Sydney several years ago, and illness overtook them and they were taken to the ~ Rtookwood State Hospital on the- same day.
William' left the institution on Saturday with a razor. Interviewed by the police Thomas said: "Bill has not cut bis throat, but is lying in a pool of water with stone around it." / I T7"*
Thomas' presentiment was true. The police found the body, and the scene was almost identical with that described by his twin broher. Australian P. A.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 68, 25 March 1929, Page 5
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