BOY IMPRISONED IN CEILING.
All one morning recently a search party scoured the district for Kevin Donoghue, aged nine years, who was missed from his home in North Bendigo. At about midday he was found imprisoned in the roof of his home with one foot firmly jammed in a cleat of wood. He had been there since the previous afternoon. When the boy had not appeared the previous evening his father and a number of neighbours searched until a late hour without finding any trace of him. Meanwhile the boy was in the ceiling of the house, which was undergoing repairs. He had climbed up into the ceiling and in a space enclosed by two walls and a chimney one of his heels was firmly caught in a cleat. He called for assistance, but apparently his voice did not penetrate from the confined space. Eventually his mother heard a noise in the ceiling and a younger brother climbed up and freed the boy. He had been in the ceiling for about 20 hours.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4459, 19 October 1933, Page 6
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173BOY IMPRISONED IN CEILING. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4459, 19 October 1933, Page 6
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