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(Australian Press Association.)
GIRL OUTRAGED. SYDNEY, July 3.
A girl, aged sixteen, was found outraged, and badly knocked about in the scrub at Softon Park, where she had been lying all night. She was taken to the hospital in a critical condition.
She told the police that with a girl friend she left the factory where she worked at 5.30 yesterday afternoon. On the way home they met two men in a motor car who asked them if they wanted a ride in the car to meet the bus. The girls consented, but later her friend left the car, and before she could follow, the men drove quickly away. After outraging her they left her in the scrub, where she remained semi-conscious all night.
BATHROOM TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, July 3
Noticing water running from the bathroom of a flat in her premises, occupied by James Simpson and Jack Brudson, the owner forced the door, and found the two men dead, asphyxiated by carbon-monoxide gas.
They had been dead about eight hours. Apparently they went to the bathroom and turned the hath heater on and were immediately overcome by gas.
TWO MEN KILLED 1 . SYDNEY, July 3. A beam supporting scaffolding, on which three men were working at the Australian Gaslight Company’s new holder at Alexandria, snapped, throwing three men to the concrete floor, a distance of twenty-two lect. Edward Garden and William Clark were killed and the other man seriously injured.
SHOOTING. MELBOURNE, July 4. Melbourne Gun Club £5,000 handicap commenced yesterday, ninety-three shooters taking part in 133 nominations. Anderson lost his first nomination in the second round and Truseott lost his nomination in the third round.
MR BRUCE’S STATEMENT. PERTH, July 4. Mr Bruce, speaking at His Majesty’s Theatre, declared that unless awards wore obeyed and there was freedom from strikes, the whole system of arbitration would have to go. (Great cheers.) * A voice: “Cut out immigration.”
Mr Bruce: “ A hotter remedy would be an industrial truce for two years.” (Cheers.))/ EUCHARIST PRO CESSION. SYDNEY, July 4,
The State Government has decided not to take any action to prevent the holding of the Eucharist procession through the streets of Sydney in September next.
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