JOKE BETWEEN FRIENDS
HOW IT CAUSED A TRAGEDY. Fir six years Frederick Buck and Sidney Flower worked side by side as clerks in the offices of the Sutton and Cheam Borough Council. They were, in Buck’s words, “the very best of friends.” One day Buck made a joking remark, and Flower came playfully toward 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 artery. Buck, at the inquest, said it was all “just a bit of fun.”
Other clerks said that if Flower had not bumped against a table the knife would not have touched him. A doctor said that the same sort of wound could have happened hundreds of times without doing any harm. A verdict of “accidental death” was returned.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4953, 9 February 1937, Page 2
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