HUMAN OSTRICH
Operation’s Revelations ASSORTMENT OF ARTICLES. (Aus. & N.Z Cable Assn.) (Received Juno 9 at 10 p.m.) LONDON, June IL ' An inquest at Cheshire revealed 497 articles in a local farmer’s stomach. His family had no suspicions that he was swallowing things until an operation on Tuesday revealed two hundred nails, forty-three gramophone needles, six teaspoons, six brace buckles, some money, three door keys, a live revolver bullet, three pen knives, ten safety pins, six bolts, a buttonhook, a motor car tyre valve, four studs, nine screws and seven curtain rings. The evidence showed that the man had a delusion that his stomach was too smooth. A verdict of death by misadventure yyas returned.
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Grey River Argus, 10 June 1933, Page 5
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