BOY WHO FOOLED DOCTORS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 65, 8 June 1927, Page 13

BOY WHO FOOLED DOCTORS

“UNCONSCIOUS” FOR FOUR HOURS Feigning unconsciousness, a boy who was picked up on the railway at Hull recently was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary, and a doctor who examined him said ho appeared to be suffering from concussion. The boy, Walter Reynolds, aged 12, who lives with his aunt at Walker Street, Hull, was placed in a small ward for observation. Four hours later he disappeared by climbing out of a window at the back of the institution and jumping over a wall. Nothing more was heard of him until the following night when he returned home. He said he went to Beverley, about eight miles from Hull, in a motor-lorry and returned to Hull in a horse-dray. He told a "Daily Mail" reporter that he had feared to go to school because the day before he had climbed the school spire. He walked across the railway line near his home, and seeing an engine approaching slowly he lay down beside the line and feigned unconsciousness, thinking he would get a ride in the engine. Instead ho was taken to the infirmary, where for four hours he kept his eyes closed and pretended he was unconscious.