A BOY'S ESCAPE
As the sequel to an amazing escape from death, a four-year-old boy was treated for injuries in the;. Boyal Northerri! Hospital, London, the other day. The youngster is Peter John Eooke, of Islington; who. fell about 70ft from a fourth-storey window \of his parents' flat. The mishap while ho was at play. Luckily he was saved from,fatal injury by his clothes hitching in some railings and breaking his fall. A neighbour stated she saw Peter with his clothes caught in the railings. "I did not actually see him fall," sho : said, "but I. saw .'.him suspended for ti moment from the railings: Then ho fell to the ground, but picked himself up at once and ran a few steps. He looked very dazed, and then he collapsed. His mother told nic afterwards that she had left him alone in the room for a few minutes." Another neighbour, living in the flat immediately below Petor's parents, declared she actually saw the child falling past her kitchen window.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1934, Page 5
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169A BOY'S ESCAPE Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1934, Page 5
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