A HUMAN KNOT
UNRAVELLED BY A POLICEMAN.
TWO MEN IN OCTOPUS CLAMP.
UNABLE TO; LOOSEN GRIP.
(Per' Press Association.) ' WELLINGTON, This Dayl.
A policema'n at Lowéxa Huttwas hurriedly summoned last night to unravel a human knot. 7
Two well-known residents, both keen followers of wrestling, ex:perirmented with Blomfield’s muchdiscussed octopus clamp. Guided by diagrams and instructions, one man tried to put a hold on the other. He succeeded; and then to his horror found he was unable. to loosen it. For fully ten‘ minutesvhe manoeuvre-d " gingerly, to his own discomfort and! the'intense pain of the man on whom the {hold had been applied, but Without avail.
A ' member of' the family was hastily dispatched for a: policeman, who soon had the clamp unloosened without injury to either party.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 206, 13 June 1936, Page 5
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