IMPALED OH SPIKES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 316, 31 January 1922, Page 5

IMPALED OH SPIKES.

CHILD CAUGHT BY THROAT. DROP PROM BALCONY. SYDNEY, Jan. 8, To fall from a balcony on to an iron fence, and to become impaled on the spike-. was the terrible experience of a seven-vear-old girl yesterday afternoon. Llie accident was witnessed by the child s mother. Violet lliamns is the girl's name, and tie ucidont occurred ai her home m < nlclei Street, Redfern. She had been playing on the verandah, and climbed on the railings „hon she slipped and fell. She struck he sharp spikes of the fence, two of which penotrated her throat, There she hung susLided. Mrs Higgins ran downs airs and £f r " amw l loudly for help. Her cluld was ... terrible pain, and lost consciousness. Mrs Higuil.s's cries attrae' i •■ • attention of (Veil Passlield. n |.,»> '" street, Redfern. He ran to ihe '•! ,lu and li£i-od her to the ground. Mood was flowing freely from the wounds-one on eael) vide of the larynx. When Ihe Civil Ambulance arrived Isaid was rendered, and the girl «« Hon lakm. to Ihc Royal Prince Alfred llosjla where Dr Kweetapple admitted Her m a critical condition. . ~„,;,,„. She was operated on later m the evening.