BOY'S PLIGHT IN CHURN.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 190, 12 August 1922, Page 19

BOY'S PLIGHT IN CHURN.

RESCUED BY DOCTORS AFTER 31 HOURS. A nine-year-old boy. who spent three and a-half hours in a milk churn, unable to get out, has decided to keep away from churns in the future. A week away from school was his only consolation, and a number of aches and pains remained to remind him of his adventure. The boy's name is Sidney Weinburg, whose home Is in Whitecbapel, and In the end he was extricated fn%i the churn at the London Hospital by the doctors. Sidney was with a number of schoolmates wtio were playing with the churns which are left with the school milk, and a challenge was thrown out as to who could say in tbe longest. I He undertook to stay in for Aye minutes with the lid on, but after'one of his little fr'ends had counted 300. they could not get the Ud off. After a struggle they eventually removed it. but Sidney then found nimself unable to get out of the churn. .-in excited crowd gathered. Cabinetmakers tried to assist, and a gas-fitter proceeded to cut off the top of the churn, but Mrs. Weinburg disliked seeing the saw so near the boy's head, and stopped the opera- | tion. The ambulance was sent for, and ihe churn and boy were delivered at the London Hospital. There the doctors merely told Sidney how to place his legs and twist himself, and he got out easily. The boy afterwards said he began to be afraid he ; was never going to get out any more, snd that while he was Inside he was very hot and uncomfortable. Sparks from a chisel which was used In an attempt to force the churn covered his face with snuL burns. He added that he intended to learn how to cut up churns.