SENTENCED MAN
SWALLOWED A FORK. LONDON, April 25. Found guilty as he lay on a stretcher at Southend Quarter Sessions to-day, Frank Sheridan, 29, a motor engineer, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment on two charges of fraud. When Detective Bennett was asked by the Recorder why Sheridan was on a stretcher he replied that on the morning after his arrest the man swallowed a fork \thile being served with food.
“I am afraid,” the officer continued, “he is given to doing that sort of thing. On more than one occasion when sentenced or awaiting sentence he has swallowed such things as spoons, nails and portions of chains to get into hospital and avoid punishment.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 June 1936, Page 14
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