MAN TRAPPED IN FREEZER

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21857, 10 August 1936, Page 12

MAN TRAPPED IN FREEZER

Attack Made on Wall With Meat Hook RELEASED AFTER TWO HOURS (PBBSS A3SOGUWOU TELEGE.VH.'I AUCKLAND, August 9, Tearing his way with a meat hook through the walls of a freezer in which he Was imprisoned, an employee of .the Auckland Meat Company, Ltd., , fought for two hours this morning before his Struggles were heard and he Was released. He was M. Hampton; Eemuera, the only employee on duty at the company's Wakefield Street depot, and in Spite of the long period in a very low temperature he was not affected and was able to go home later. Hamnton entered the freeze!, where the temperature is between J5 and 20 degrees, to read the thermometer and_he pulled the door behind him. Unfortunately the catch locked and he was unable to bpen it. Realising the danger of being imprisoned there for a period and in an effort to keep warm, Hampton immediately attacked the wall with a meat hook In an endeavour to break his way out. The wall of wood ahd compressed cork is about eight inches thick, but when Hampton had reached the outer skin the noise was heard by a visitor to the shop and he was released. At that stage he could have freed himself by working for about another three-quarters of an hour. Suffering slightly from jshock, Hampton was taken to the Auckland Hospital, but after treatment he was able to go home, He went to bed, but later got up, apparently little affected by the experience. . .