Unlucky Slap on the Back
A friendly slap on the back ‘‘knocked a man out” at Folkestone, England, recently, and this timo held up a bus. A bus conductor, Mr Robert Gillett, was collecting fares when a friend boarded the vehicle and greeted him with a hearty slap on the back. Mr Gillett immediately swooned and collapsed. on tho platform of his bus, which was pulled up by one of the women passengers ringing the bell.
After .first-aid had been rendered by a policeman, Mr Gillett was taken to hospital. In the course oi: the war, when serving with the King's Royal Rifles, he was severely wounded in tlic neck, and the slap opened his old wound. Later in tho day he was able to go home.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7284, 11 October 1933, Page 4
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127Unlucky Slap on the Back Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7284, 11 October 1933, Page 4
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