FARMER'S PREDICAMENT
BEES SWARM IN TROUSERS MAN ARRESTED AS INSANE BUDAPEST, July fi A supposed madman who was going to Budapest by train proved to be a farmer whose bees, escaping from their containers under the seat, swarmed into, his trousers. Women fled as he tore off his nether garments to shake the invaders out of the window, where a passing express whisked the trousers from his hands. The guard, seeing a trouseriess man, Bent on an alarm and the police, posing "as tailors measuring him for new trousers, clamped him into a straitjacket- and placed him in a mental hospital. It was three days before the unfortunate man's story was verified. and ae .was released.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22775, 8 July 1937, Page 12
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