MAN EXTRICATED
CHLOROFORM UNDER TRAIN,
BIG TASK FOR DOCTORS.
LONDON, .April 30.
Doctors descended on the permanent way at Bushey and Oxhey, L.M.S. •station yesterday, and administered chloroform to a man who had fal.en in front of the train.
Electric current was switched off and the front coach* of the train was tai-ged with jacks before th© man could be- extricated.
The man—Ronald Adams, aged 23, of Kitchener Road, High Wycombe, Bucks—was taken to Whatford Peace Memorial hospital, where one of his legs was amputated. The Watford-London electric service was delayed for an hour and a half.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1932, Page 6
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