PLIGHT OF TRAVELLER
DILEMMA CAUSED BY BEES TROUSERS WITISKED AWAY (Reed. July 7, 2.30 p.m.) BUDAPEST, July 6. A “madman” going to Budapest by train proved to be a farmer whose bees, escaping from their containers under the seat, swarmed in his trousers. Women fled as he tore the garments off to shake the invaders out of the window. A passing express whisked the trousers from his hands and Ihe guard, seeing a trouserless man, sent on an alarm to the police. The farmer was being measured by a tailor tor new trousers when lie was seized and put in a straitjackct and placed in an asylum, where lie remained for three days before his story was verified. He was then released.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19371, 8 July 1937, Page 15
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122PLIGHT OF TRAVELLER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19371, 8 July 1937, Page 15
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