HIS HEAD STUCK.
BOY'S PREDICAMENT
PUZZLE FOR RESCUERS
LONDON, June 9
An ambulance, a police tender, a squad of police, and three doctors, with a boatman waiting in the river underneath, assembled on Westminster Bridge to-day to extricate five-year-old Donald Bourdon who, in childish curiosity, had poked his head through the iron balustrade.
Well-meaning passengers tried to push Donald through, and this made matters worse. Doctors and students from St. Thomas' Hospital tried to rescue him, but failed; and then a fire-engine brought up firemen, who, with hacksaws, hammers, and chisels, succeeded in freeing the youngster.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 143, 18 June 1926, Page 7
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