Tuesday, 26 July 2016

Out on a limb

Excerpt from a couple of Cobar columns in Dubbo Dispatch.


Friday January 20th, 1899

On Thursday last a man named
George Griffin met with an accident at Mount
Boppy which will in all probability cost him his
life. It appears that he had climbed a tree to
chop off branches, when the limb he was sitting
on snapped, and he fell a distance of 20ft. His
back was broken by the fall. His wife at once
hail the injured man conveyed to the Cobar
Hospital, where he was attended to by Dr.
Robinson, but little hope of his recovery is held
out. He Is 44 years of age, and is the father of
three children.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/228220527

Friday, June 2nd, 1899


On Sunday the unfortunate man
Griffin, whose back was broken some months

ago at Mount Boppy died in the Hospital.

No comments:

Post a Comment