MAN’S NOSE CUT OFF
SEWN UN FACE AGAIN SYDNEY, Nov. 7.--Kail I’etersen, aged -17/ u lio is employed as a gardener at a house in Dcuieaster avenue, Kensington, accidentally thrust his head through a window early on Saturday 111< irni 11 UC- The broken glass lacerated his li]»s, and cut part; < I his nose completely oil'. Pol ice wore called 1 to the house 1 , and they hurried Petersen to St. Vincent's Hospital. I)r. Mathieson put throe stitches in t lu* lijis, and', alter examining the man’s uo.se, askt-d the police lu iiii< 1 (he portion of the nose which was missing. A rapid journey toi Kensington, a search in the garden o| the house lollowed, and the police returned to the hospital with the mission portion ol Hu. 1 nose. The doctor restored it to its proper, place, inserting: PI stitches in the course of the- operation. The man. was then allowed to go Impie.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 124, 19 December 1938, Page 4
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156MAN’S NOSE CUT OFF Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 124, 19 December 1938, Page 4
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