BOY A BOX.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 272, 9 April 1913, Page 2

BOY A BOX.

GTXERVA STORY OF REAL MI*E. RESCUED AFTER-TWO HOURS. Melbourne, March 27. George Drvburgh, a' live-year-old son of Mr. George Dryburgh, foreman of the stables of tile Bacchus Marsh Milk Co., Victoria Laii6, was rescued from a box, the lid of which had closed on him, after having been imprisoned for two hours. The child 'wandered away Tri 'tlifi "afternoon and was seen "going in the direction of Little Collins Street.) anee at tea-time filled his parents .with deep concern, and they thought he' had been lost in-.the rfity. Mr. Dryburgh made an exhaustive search in the yrcste>"n end of the city, but could glean no tidings ok bis son. It was a lucky thought that prompted Mr. Dryburgh to go into the stables, for on entering the yard he heard a noise 'its of someone knocking. Running to one of the, company's waggons, lie, located the sonritl irv ii box. He. call-; ed out, and received a reply, in muffled tones like those of a ventriloquist,,"l'm in this box, daddy." - Jlp.. Drvburgh jumped into the waggo'n and opened the lid of the box, wherein his half-fainting boy was lying. The box is one of'the kind used for the carriage of butter, and measures about.2ft 6in in depth and a little over a foot in width. These boxes are made specially for jhe purpose of keeping heat from the produtfe. and are consequently almost hermetically sealed when Mint. 'They close with a spring 'which automatically locks the lid to a side of the case. •

The child had apparently not gone far 'when lie wandered away from home. He must have ' walked around the stables and entered the .yard through an open gate. Then, playing about, lie saw the open box, and, child-like, fancied it as a good place to crawl into. " The poor little boy was in a pitiable condition when he was taken, out nf the box. His face was.streanringwith perspiration arid lie was nimble to stand, "There were beautiful lights in the box," lie prattled to his father. "T called out to mamma, but T could not. sinrr out very loud, because T wanted to get out."

The child had been in the box about two hours.