NEWS RY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1925, Page 3

NEWS RY MAIL

EXPLOSION IN BOY'S MOLTH. London. <vt. o. At the iupuesi at West Ham yesterday on Laurence Henry .Sims, 16. of East. Ham. ir was stated that when cycling in Futon Park. F... he collided with a motor-car. He was conveyed to hospital, where it was found that his jaw was fractured. Dr. .1. Keith David'cm. of Queen Mary’s Hospital. Stratford, said that in the course of an operation on the

jaw it was necessary to use warm air to kee|) Sint's teeth dty. the air being applied hy mentis of a dental syringe. Ether ami oxygen was the anaesthetic employed. On the third application of the warm air an explosion occurred at the hack of the hoy’s throat. Acute hemmorrhuge followed and Sims died within ten minutes. Dr Pereival Cnie. Harley-st feet. W.. who performed the operation. said that after the explosion the apparatus used burst into flames. During the wait 1.(100 cases of the sort passed through his hands, and what was done in this ease was merely routine work. Flln-r was very i ntia mm able, hut there was no naked tlame near. The explosion. in his opinion. must have been due to a mixture of vapours. The teeth were smeared over with alcohol, and had afterwards to l-e made perfectly dry. otherwise the dental cement would not adhere. Dr. McDonnell, the auaethetists, stated that in I ,-JUO eases he had never encountered anything similar to wlutt had hapnetted in this oi.se. The jury returned a verdict that the hoy's death xvas due to accident. -STRONGEST” MAN WEDS. PARTS. Oct. 13. One of the biggest crowds that lias ever attended a Parsiatt Wedding gathered litis afternoon at tlm regisier olHee at the Town Hall ot the L'iht arrondissemetit for the civil celebration of the marriage of the world's record weight-lifter, better knoxvn as Charles Ricroulot the -‘strongest man in the world.’’ to Mile. Magda Roche, a protxy young kincma actress. * R.icmilot the other day broke all the Olympic weight-lifting records, beat-

j ing the previous holder Cadine. He had promised his fiancee that, if he beat his rival, he would marry her at once.