DEATH OF MAN IN WELL AFTER SIXTY HOURS OF AGONY.—Desperate and untiring efforts were made to rescue Charles O’Leary, aged 32 years, who was imprisoned by a fall of earth in a 50ft well at Greystones, Wicklow, Ireland, on December 8. Ceaselessly, night and day, rescuers endeavou red to drive a tunnel at an angle to the bottom of the well. The man was fully conscious for over sixty hours, but when res cuers reached him on December 11 he was found to be dead. Left: The scene at the top of the well during the operations. Right: The Rev J. O’Connor, a County Wicklow priest, speaking with the imprisoned man through a tube. Father O’Connor remained at the scene throughout the man’s imprisonment.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20503, 3 January 1935, Page 5

DEATH OF MAN IN WELL AFTER SIXTY HOURS OF AGONY.—Desperate and untiring efforts were made to rescue Charles O’Leary, aged 32 years, who was imprisoned by a fall of earth in a 50ft well at Greystones, Wicklow, Ireland, on December 8. Ceaselessly, night and day, rescuers endeavou red to drive a tunnel at an angle to the bottom of the well. The man was fully conscious for over sixty hours, but when res cuers reached him on December 11 he was found to be dead. Left: The scene at the top of the well during the operations. Right: The Rev J. O’Connor, a County Wicklow priest, speaking with the imprisoned man through a tube. Father O’Connor remained at the scene throughout the man’s imprisonment.