JOKE ENDS IN DEATH
“DUELLING” THRUST.
LONDON, April IS
How a playful demonstration of the aniics ni performing fleas led io the dentil oi a young married man was told al Accrington yesterday, when a verdict oi accidental death was re-
turned at_ Hie inquest on George Li.•'.nslield, 24, a commercial traveller, of Aitken Street, Accrington.
Jt. was stated that Dranstiold and his wife visited a local fair ground on Saturday and saw a performance of fleas in which two of them were supposed to be lighting a duel. Mrs Ethel Drunstield said that on Sunday evening she was preparing tea and took up a knife to cut bread. Al that moment her husband men Hom'd the deus’ performance. She. laughing and joking, began to demc.nsiiate the thrusts. She made a slight tin ust. towards her husband and tell the knife pierce his flesh. Dr. Anderson said that it was a thousand to one chance on the knife getting between the ribs
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 May 1935, Page 5
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