BOY’S FATAL FALL
CRASH THROUGH A ROOF. TRAGEDY OF A CRICKET GAME, r \f • - Crashing 20ft. through the roof of a shed on a wharf at Pyrmont on a recent afternoon, says a Sydney newspaper, a lad lay with a fractured skull and broken arm until early the following morning. He died in hospital later in the day.
A number of lads were playing cricket and the ball was hit on to the shed roof. Harold Walter Ferguson climbed up and threw it down. The game went on and the boys next day told the police that when they heard a noise in the shed they thought a watchman had chased Fergusoii and they ran away. Following a report soon after midnight by Mr. Ferguson that his son was missing, the Pyrmont police discovered that the shed roof had given way and that the boy had fallen through. He was unconscious and they rushed him to hospital. ’ .
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1933, Page 5
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