Trapped in Tree Two Days
MAN’S CRIES MISTAKEN FOR AN OWL’S
A man living near Gloucester was imprisoned for 45 hours in the trunk of a hollow tree into which he had fallen while climbing.
Ho was held fast as in a vice. After suffering agony, he at last made himself heard, and was rescued, exhausted and famished, with a set of blocklioistiug tackle. The man is William Bowketl, of Overton, near Saul. At first no one heard his calls, as the tree is in an isolated part of a meadow, but. in the evening of the first day of his imprisonment a boy, .James Tranter, who had been picking violets near, reported that he had been scared by noises in the tree. It was thought that the boy had heard an owl. In the afternoon of the third day Mr George Webb, of Highley Farm, Minsterworth, heard groans coining from ■the tree and then a voice say: **lam in the tree and can’t get out. ’' I Mr Webb climbed the tree and saw Bowkett, who was so firmly wedged that nothing could be done to help jiiin, 1 Mr Webb got the assistance of two salmon fishermen, Air Mark Mayo and 'Air William Parker, who fetched a set of block-hoisting tackle. This was attached to Air Bowkett, whose clothes were lorn from him as he was hoisted out.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 212, 10 September 1935, Page 10
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229Trapped in Tree Two Days Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 212, 10 September 1935, Page 10
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