sentences:  Dacey increased his majority at the 1910 election and served until his death on 11 April 1912.The resulting by-election in May saw Dacey's son-in-law Simon Hickey easily account for the Liberal Reform's William John Ferguson who was the Member for Sturt from 1894 to 1904.Hickey increased his majority at the 1913 election and defeated high profile former state and federal MP Sydney Smith in 1917.