SWALLOWED DOOR-KEY
MAN OUTDOES OSTRICH
LONDON, Sept. 19.
At a hospital in Trieste, reports the Trieste correspondent, of Tho Times, an Italian labourer, aged 47, complained that ho could not go home because he had swallowed the frontdoor key.
He was disbelieved, but persisted with Jii.s story.
An X-ray examination then revealed it pencils, three fountain pens, a .fork, a screw, live keys, and several coitus in his stomach.
It also gave a glimpse of other undefined indigestible articles'. The complete inventory was obtained only after an intricate operation, which yielded, to the amazement, of the surgeon, 13 ordinary keys and four coins, a large door-key, a screw, a sardine-tin opener, tliro«j cigarette holders, two needles, a piece of glass and a key chain. The operation was perfectly successful, though, the patient's, first I words Afterwards were a .question whether the coin swallowed had been salvaged.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19135, 2 October 1936, Page 3
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