Biography

Known as Jack the Rager.

The deceased was buried at the foot of a corkwood tree, 30 miles south of Well 49 by Police Constable Anthony James Jones (Regimental Number 1653), Halls Creek, and Samuel Hazlett Jnr. Smith was a drover who was injured by a fall from a horse on 20 April and the place where he died is 100 miles south of Billiluna Station and 230 miles south of Halls Creek. Prospector Samuel Hazlett, who was with Smith when he passed away, told the police of how Smith, after being injured, remarked that he thought he would be alright, but later he began to show the effects of the mishap. He was complaining of a pain in his right side, but thought he would recover. He also seemed to have a sore back and at times crawled instead of walking. They finally came to No. 49 Well about nine o'clock at night. Smith was then in a bad way and, though Hazlett did all he could for him, he died at 4 p.m. on the 27th.