SWALLOWED A BALLOON.
MINER “BURST” IN DANCE HALL. DEATH ENSUES LATER. JOHANNESBURG, November 4. A miner burst here —the first kno.wn case in which anyone has ever emulated the frog qf Aesop’s fables. A single man, he was a great favourite with the mining community.
Always ready to lend a hand at dances, he was helping to decorate a dance hall by blowing up tiny balloons.
Suddenly he called to a mate : “I’ve swallowed one of these balloons. Suppose it won’t hurt me 7” His friend laughed. “How can it ■he asked. “It’s so small.” The dance went on. Late at night the miner complained of sharp internal pains. After three hours’ agony he collapsed. Rushed to the; hospital, he was operated on, but died a few minutes after being removed from the operating table. The inquest disclosed that gases generated in the stomach and bowels had blown up the balloon. Then it had burst, rupturing the stomach and intestines.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5201, 9 November 1927, Page 2
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160SWALLOWED A BALLOON. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5201, 9 November 1927, Page 2
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