STARVED TO DEATH.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 74, 7 February 1877, Page 2

STARVED TO DEATH.

Melbourne papers . report the dettb. under very said circumstances, in the bash, of Thomas Stephensoa, second son of Mr Alexander Stevenson, of Messrs Stevenson, and Elliot, carriage builders, King- street. The deceased was 16 years and 10 months old and wu staying with his elder brother Acrhibaldat their station, ' Bundilinee abont 50 miles from Loath i New South Wales. At 4 o'clock on the morning of Friday, the Bth December, Thomas started on horseback for the post* office at Louth, and arrived there daring the day. He set out for home again at daybreak on the following Saturday, bat instead of returning by the ordinary way he took what he thought would be a shorter route. On Wednesday bis his horse arrived at the station riderless with the coat, scarf, and spurs of ihe deceased fixed to the saddle. It was then feared that he had been lost in the bash and his brother Archibald with black trackers, started to search for him. The weather had been extremely hot, and it was known that the missin? young man never carried a water-bag The black trackers found that he had been wandering on the Debil Debil mountain, on ascending which, and finding that he could not take his horse down the other side, he had tamed back for the purpose of getting round tit base of the mountains. Instead of doing this, however he had gone back towards Louth* and, darkness coming upon him, he had camped out and hobbled his horse. The trackers ultimately traced him to a lonely part of the bush, where on the Sunday following they found his lifeless body lying in a composed manner between two logs. Two or three days after losing his war, and when he must hare suffered severely from thirst it would seem that he had become resigned to his fate and prepared himself for death. Having taken off his coat scarf and spurs, and fixed them on his horse, leaving that animal to find its own way home, he had placed the two logs on a track and laid down between them, with his head resting on a cross piece at one end, and thus expired. His body was conveyed to the station and there buried.