Percy WITTS
1897 - TUMUT, Friday -
A sad accident happened today Percy Witts, 10 years old, son of Mr Theodore Witts, of the Royal Hotel, Adelong, was travelling with stock in company with Archibald Bell, proprietor of the Summit of Talbingo when his horse fell and rolled on the boy. Bell picked him up in au insensible condition, and carried him to the foot of the mountain.
The sufferer was subsequently brought to Tumut, and Dr Mason and Dr Lyttleton are now consulting the case is regarded as hopeless, the boy's skull being badly fractured. - (Ref- The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)(about) Previous issue Saturday 29 May 1897).