A Bush Tragedy
| Title: | A Bush Tragedy |
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| Identifier: | archives.org.au/A_Bush_Tragedy |
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| Storage location: | H.M. Wilson Archives/Folder 3 (sort key: 066 ← Previous Next →) |
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| Related people: | Harold Aubrey Hall |
| Related places: | Quobba • Carnarvon |
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A BUSH TRAGEDY. (1933, December 20). Northern Times (Carnarvon, WA : 1905 - 1952), p. 5. Retrieved April 19, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74871116
Note that the date written on this clipping appears to be wrong: Trove has it as the Northern Times of Wednesday the 20th.
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A BUSH TRAGEDY.
Whilst travelling in from Quobba Station with a thousand sheep for shipment at Carnarvon, Mr. Aubrey Hall, drover, and two natives, Balby and one known as Teddy Edwards, were accidentally poisoned about 24 miles from Carnarvon. Hall had arranged for water to be placed at certain places along the route which is a dry one. About 9 o'clock on Sunday morning whilst travelling along in Colilie paddock on Boolathana they came across a petrol tin alongside the road which appeared to contain water. Though they apparently had water in their water bags they drank from the tin, and watered their dogs and horses. Shortly afterwards they all became sick, the dogs died and also one of the horses, while later on Edwards be came rapidly worse than the other men and died. Messages were conveyed to Carnarvon police from Quobba Station whence the news had been carried by a truck driver, and from Mr. Hall who had ridden in to Boolathana Station, following which Constable Summers, accompanied by Mr. George Munro of Dalgety & Co., left for the scene about 7.30 p.m. and brought the body of Edwards in to Carnarvon morgue. A post mortem was held by Dr. Stewart, but the result is not yet known. What the tin contained or why it was left alongside the road is at present unknown.
