THE LONELY GUSH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 89, 10 December 1912, Page 6

THE LONELY GUSH.

AN OLD MAN’S TERRIBLE SEE BERING. A story of terrible suffering is sup plied by the Brookvalo police, stales tne Sydney Daily telegraph. Cornelius H. Keliaher is an old man wild for some time lias Jived a lonely life in a lonely hut in the bush solitudes at Dee Why, about four miles out of Manly. Ho was a well-known figure in the locality, and residents noting his continued absence from ids usual haunts, became anxious as to ids safety. Constable Hand, of the Brookvalo Police, set out to investigate. He went to the old man’s hut, and there found its owner hovering between life and dentil. It appears that Keliaher went into the busn a week ago. Some ((.stance from Ids hut he tripped and fell on a sapling. One of the branches came in contact witii one of Ids eyes, which was torn out. Suffering fearful agony, lie crawled back to his hut. He could go no further. For seven days he lay there suffering excruciating agony, and becoming more and more helpless each day. .1 here was no food or water in tne lint. He lived witii liis wound, and without sustenance for a week—in the terrible silence of the bush. Constable Hand canned him away. He was taken to the Manly Hospital in a critical condition.