WOMAN'S ORDEAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 192, 28 May 1934, Page 8

WOMAN'S ORDEAL.

FRACTURE OF A THIGH.

CRAWL UP STEEP SLOPE. (Special to the "Guardian.") AUCKLAND, May. 24. : To crawl over 40 yards up a steep garden slope with a.broken thigh was the ordeal experienced by Miss Annie Mason, aged 76, of 25 Picton Street, Ponsonby, about noon on Monday. While picking fruit from a guava tree in a gully at the foot of a garden. Miss Mason slipped and fell, breaking her right thigh. Her calls for help were in vain, and she was faced with the prospect of crawling up the long slope of the garden from the gully to the back of \he house.

After dragging herself for about 15 yards across a sodden gjassy slope toward the house, the injured woman had great difficulty in negotiating a steep hillock. Then followed a painful crawl up a long slope. this time Miss Mason's effithes were torn and wet, and she was in a distressed condition when she reached the top of the slope. Although almost exhausted, shevfcthen climbed over some terraces of p!:-.nts, reaching a level stretch of lawn at the back of the house. After crawling across the lawn, which is several yards wide, Miss Mason dragged herself along an asphalt path. Calling for assistance, the injured woman attracted the attention of an occupant of the neighbouring house, and assistance was quickly rendered.