JOKE BETWEEN FRIENDS
HOW IT CAUSED A TRAGEDY For six years Frederick Buck and bjanev l lower worked side by side as clerks in the offices of the Sutton and Chenm Borough Council. They wree in. Buck's words, “the very best of friends.” One day Buck made a joking remark, and Flower onmo jokingly towards him with a. ruler. Buck made to “shoo” him off. He had a paper knife in his hand. It touched Flower’s leg. Six days later he died from hemorrhage of a thigh arterv.
Buck, at the inquest, said it was itll “just a bit of fun.” Other clerks said that if Flower had not bumped against a table the knife liquid not have toil chad him. A doctor said the same sort of wound ; could have happened hundreds of time without doing anv harm. A verdict of “accidental death,” was returned.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 13092, 13 February 1937, Page 10
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