Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Monday 17 January 1938, page 2


* LIGHTNING STRUCK'

Drovers' Bodies Found Under

i Tree ,

GUNDAGAI, Saturday.

Apparently having been killed by lightning in a storm on -Friday after-noon; the bodies of two young men were found on the-roadside-between Gundagai and Wagga.

'; The" men were driving a flock of sheep from Wagga to Gundagai and when they did not arrive on Saturday morning, the owner, Mr. Alex Nicholls, decided to investigate. He discovered the bodies under-a dead tree where the men had apparently been sheltering from the rain. In the hands of one man was a half rolled cigarette.

One of the victims is believed, to be; E. R. Lavery, of Wagga, but the identity, of the. second man has not yet been established.