ON WAVERLEY'S CLIFFS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1348, 27 January 1912, Page 4

ON WAVERLEY'S CLIFFS.

PARALYSED AND STARVING. Terrible experiences on the rocks near the water's edge at Waverley, Sydney, during a week, befell Garnett Berry, aged 20. a visitor from Dungog. Tho young man had lately been suffering from loss of memory, and was reported to the police as missing on Wednesday, January 10, ten days ago, by tho Pines Hospital.

Berry, last Saturday (says the Sydney "Herald" of Saturday last), it is- supposed, was walking on the rocks at Waverley, when he was apparently seized with a paralytic stroke. He fell down on a rock surrounded at high tide by tho sea. Nobody observed his fall, and tho unfortunate man lay without food and exposed to the changes of weather practically for a Week, being only discovered and'rescued from his' predicament yesterday morning (January 19).

Ho was found at 9.30 by Mr. Samuel Gaw, residing at liundwick. Tho Mater was all round him at tho time.

The poor. fellow was in a shockingly weak state, and delirious. Ho was conveyed by Constable Batten, of the Waverley police, and tuo Kaudivick branch of the St. John Ainbulanco to St. Vincent's Hospital, where he was admitted by Dr. Bowman, and it waa found that he was suffering severely from the effects of the week's starvation and exposure.

Ho evidently had a narrow escape from death. The injuries sustained by him in the fall do not in themselves appear to havo been serious, but ho must havo been in a state of unconsciousness most of the time ho lay there, otherwise cries for assistance from him should have been heard by passers-by. A strange feature of the case is that the Waverley police say that sevtral people during tho week saw the man, tut they regarded him as somebody who was tamping out there, and did uot report the matter.