CARPENTER'S BLACK FACE.
MADE HI.M DIE LAUGHING.
(/•Sydney Sun" Service.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 25
Astonishment at finding himself turned into a black man caused the death of William Colbert, a carpenter, at Yonkers yesterday.
Colbert went to a cafe for lunch and fell asleep after his meal. A' practical joker borrowed a bottle of shoe polish from a bootblack and turned Colbert's face to an ebony colour, while a crowd collected to watch the result.
When the carpetner woke up he saw a lot of people looking at him curiously. Then one held a mirror before him. As soon a she had recognised himself Colbert burst out laughing uproariously and fell dead.
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Northern Advocate, 2 September 1913, Page 2
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