NEEDLE IN AN EGG

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1934, Page 8

NEEDLE IN AN EGG

“FELT SOMETHING SHARP.” Feeling something sharp prick his throat as he swallowed a mouthful of fried egg at breakfast, Mr. James. Crabtree, of Heatherton Road, Noble Park, coughed up a needle about IJin. long. His conviction is that the needle was in the egg before it was broken for cooking. “I am certain that the needle could not have dropped on to my plate while I was eating or into the pan while the egg was being cooked,” said Mr. Crabtree, an electric welder at the West Melbourne Gas Works. “And my wife is certain that the needle could not have fallen on to the bacon in the cupboard. “I had eaten half of one egg when I felt something sharp in my throat. I coughed hard, and recovered a piece of the white of an egg with the needle in it. I have kept the needle as a souvenir. “The egg was laid by one of my own fowls the day before.” A chemist at the Gas Company (Mr. B. Wright) said that his cousin, Mr. R. Haymen, had located tacks and pebbles in eggs by the candle-light process on his poultry farm at Warragul. He believed that the needle could have been swallowed by the fowl and laid in the egg. Mr. W. C. Wright, poultry expert, attached to the Agricultural Department, looks for another explanation. “The circumstances are unique in my personal experience,” he said. >-■ .....