YOUNG GARDENER WAS STRUCK BLIND IN STREET.
(Special to the “ Star.") LONDON, December 16.
“ I have gone blind! ” cried William Sims, a twenty-one-year-old gardener, of Birmingham, who had been on an excursion to Exeter and was hurrying along Queen Street on his way on Sunday night to catch the return train. Passers-by tool: him to Exeter Eye Infirmary. Sims injured a nerve of the eyes in a motor accident three years ago, and it is thought that the lights of an arc lamp affected this nerve. There is every hope of his sight being restored.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18985, 3 February 1930, Page 11
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