A HUMAN TANGLE.
J Per Press Association. — Copyright, g \ WELLINGTON, This Day. [ 1 A policeman at Lower Hutt was , | urgently summoned last night to I i unravel a human knot. J J Two. well-known residents, who i i are both keen followers of wrest- ■ 1 ling, had experimented with J, S Blomfield’s much-discussed octopus I b clamp hold. Guided by diagrams * • and instructions, one man tried to i i put the hold on the other. He J * succeeded—-and then to his horror a g found he was unable to loosen it. I # For fully 10 minutes he man- J * ceuvred gingerly to his own dis- g I comfort and the intense pain of ■ b the man on whom the hold had ( i been applied, but without avail. I I A member cf the family was ■ ® hastily, despatched for a police- g g man, who scon had , the clamp un- * b loosened without • causing damage t J to either party. *
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Northern Advocate, 13 June 1936, Page 2
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159A HUMAN TANGLE. Northern Advocate, 13 June 1936, Page 2
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