BOY’S’ PLIGHT IN CHURN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2480, 14 September 1922, Page 4

BOY’S’ PLIGHT IN CHURN.

OVER THREE HOURS INSIDE. A nine-year-old'boy who spent three and a-half hours in a milk churn, unable to get out, has decided to keep away from churns in the future. A. week away from school was- his only consolation, and a number of aches and pains remained to remind him of his adventure. The boy’s name is Sidney Wcinburg, whose home is in Whitechapel, London, and in the end he was extricated from the churn at the London Hospital by the doctors, Sidney was with a number of schoolmates who were playing, with the churns which are left with the school milk, and a challenge was thrown out as to who could stay in the longest. lie undertook to stay in for five minutes with the lid on, but after one of his little friends had counted 300, they could not get the , lid off. After a struggle they eventually removed it, but Sidney then found hitnself unable to get out of the churn. An excited crowd gathered. Cabinetmakers tried to assist, and a gas-fitter proceeded to cut off the top of the churn, but Mrs Weinburg disliked seeing the saw so near the boy’s head, and stopped the operation. The ambulance was sent for, and the churn and boy were delivered at the London Hospital. There the doctors merely told Sidney- how to place his legs and twist himself, and he got out easily. The boy afterwards said he began to be afraid he was never going to get out anymore, and. that while-ne was inside he was very, hot and uncomfortable. Sparks from a chisel which was used in an attempt to force the churn covered his face with small burns. He added that he intended to learn how to cut up churns.