STRUCK BY RED-HOT SPRING

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 118, 12 February 1926, Page 8

STRUCK BY RED-HOT SPRING

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT

Mr. T. W. Leslie, the custodian of the Town Hall, was . the victim of an extraordinary accident on Monday evening last. He was standing in George Maslam’s smithy in Taranaki Street, when the blacksmith lifted with a long pair of tongs a spring of a motorcar out of the fire, and was about to lay it on the anvil preparatory to beating it into shape, when the spring, which was red hot, slipped from the grip of the tongs, struck the anvil, and bounced high enough to strike Mr. Leslie on the right cheek bone, just underneath the eve. The flying steel not only cut to the bone, but it burnt the flesh slightly, and partially dazed Mr. Leslie. Whether it is advantageous to cauterise almost at the same instant a wound is inflicted can scarcely remain in doubt after Mr. Leslie’s accident, for after three days the wound has healed up, and there is only a small scar to show where his cheek was cut to.the bone.