SIX HUNDRED FEET FALL

Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1931, Page 9

SIX HUNDRED FEET FALL

WOMAN IMPALED ON TREE

DEATH IN the BLUE MOUNTAINS SON CLIMBS DOWN CLIFF FACE. By Teltgraph.—Press Association. Rec. 7.50 p.m. Sydney, April 29. The body of Mrs. Vera Bailey, aged 3(1, was found impaled on a tree on the mountainside at Katoomba, and her sou, a <red nine, was discovered on a rocky leltee heathy with his hip broken and in an unconscious condition. The pair had fallen nearly 600 feet at Echo Point, a favdilrite resort, and had oeeu missing since yesterday afteinoom Rescuers had considerable difficulty in recovering the mother’s mutilated body. She hfid lately suffered a nervous brbakd The injured son, named William Bailey, recovered consciousness and told the story of his mother’s disappearance Wliilb lie Was abseii.t playing, about a swin". He found his mother’s hat on a seat above the cliff. He called her, but receiving no response, lie began to bliffib dbWn the cliff., lie fell many feet arid then sfiw her body ih a tree in thb cliasiii below. He pliifikily tried tb reach her; fell 20 feet to ariotlffir ledge, aiid broke his hip. He teiiieriibered rib ffibre. lib spent tile night ih bitter cold; with sleet falling; and Was found by tlie park rangers tb-dfiy.