A KEEN APPETITE.
$ A dog chain two feet Ion", a safety razor blade (nearly whole), a suspender buckle, 179 fragments of glass, hay wire, staples, nails ami screws. This miscellaneous collection, weighing about two pounds, has just been found in the stomach of Charles "S'. Buzzell, a Montreal prisoner at the House of Correction in l)eer Island, off Xew Brunswick, as the result of his complaint that he was siuTering i iom indigestion. Dr. Rockwell was the finder of this extraordinary accumulation in performing an operation which has. it is reported. cured Buzzell of indigestion. Buzzed, according to Dr. Rockwell, had been making the collection, with suicidal intent since last December. He had previously made a similar attempt to end his life, but it was frustrated by au operation performed in Xew York.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 7 April 1920, Page 4
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133A KEEN APPETITE. Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 7 April 1920, Page 4
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