HAD STUCK HEAD THROUGH PALINGS.
LONDON, June 10. An ambulance, a police tender, a Xjosse of police, and three doctors, with a boatman waiting in the river underneath, assembled on Westminster Bridge to-day to extricate 5-year-old Donald Bourdon, who, in childish curiosit}-, had poked his head through the iron balustrade. Well-meaning passengers tried to push Donald through, and this made matters worse. Doctors and students from St Thomas’s Hospital tried to rescue him, but failed; and then a fireengine brought up firemen who, with hacksaws, hammers, and chisels, succeeding in freeing the youngster.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17880, 23 June 1926, Page 12
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93HAD STUCK HEAD THROUGH PALINGS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17880, 23 June 1926, Page 12
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