MAN’S DIET OF STEEL
AIITICI.es- FOUND IN STOMACH. NEARLY 500 SWALLOWED. (United PrefS A&sooiation —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, June 9. 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 disclosed two hundred nails, 43 gramophone needles, six teaspoons, six brace buckles, -some money, three door keys, a live revolver bullet, three penknives, ten safei;ms, six bolts, a buttonhook, a motor-car tyre valve, four studs, nine scows and seven curtains rings. The evidence 'showed the man had a delusion his stomach was too smooth. The verdict was of death by misadventure.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 10 June 1933, Page 5
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109MAN’S DIET OF STEEL Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 10 June 1933, Page 5
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