Evening star., 1909-08-28
RECORD OF STRANGE DEATHS
FALSE TEETH AND HAIRPINS
PLAY TRAGIC PARTS.
Man Choked With a Piece of His
Finger-Chicken !Strangles
a Baby.
From London Answers.

From London Answers.
The other day Pimlico woman was
killed by falling upon jug, which broke
and cut her arm go badly that she bled
to death.
This curious accident recalls another,
which occurred a year or two ago in q
shop in Cambridge row, Mile End. Wolf
Levine. son OF a mineral water manufac-
turer. was opening a bottle of lemonade
when it burst. sharp fragment of
glass flew up and drove deep into the
young fellows throat, infiicting wound
which proved fatal.
Some years ago tipsy man was turn
ed out of a Manchester public house for
making g. disturbance. He tried to force
his way back, and, in the struggle, the
door was shut upon his fingers.
Ten minutes later he was found dead
in the street. Examination by a doctor
showed that he had been suffocated by a
piece of skin which was stuck in his
windpipe. Evidently his finger had been
badly pinched in the door. and, naturally
enough, he had put it in his mouth. A
piece of broken skin passed down his
throat, caught in the air passages and
suffocated him.
Excessive Exercise.
A most extraordinary case occurred at
who taught music was accustomed to
apparatus. One morning she was heard
exercising as usual, then there came a
heavy thud, and afterward silence
No one paid much attention, but when
she failed to come to breakfast they went
to her room. The poor lady lay dead on
the floor, with one of the cords of the
exerciser twisted around her neck. It was
a1nf khnf Il Ifenc 4.
result of accident. The cord had got
round her neck, and. in attempting to
free herself, she had lost her footing,
with the result that she had been literally
hanged
A road official in a town in Wurttemberg
lost his baby in a strangely tragic fash
ion. The child was left in its cot by an
open window. A hen flew in. and, hap
pening to settle on the throat of the sleep
ing. child, caused pressure sufficient to
SURROGATE the poor little thing.
Speaking of hens, the a0n of a Hertford-
shire farmer was feeding his poultry,
when hen with chickens flew at his face.
inf1icting two very small wounds. But the
creatures beak must have been poisoned.
for lockjaw was the result, and the man
was dead in less than week.
Two cases have recently been reported
of deaths caused by hairpins or combs.
The first was in Paris. A woman, getting
out of a train, stumbled and fell on her
her skull and caused her death The other
similar fatality happened at Gothenbu7e.
At a dance last winter young lady's
dress was caught in an officers spurs. She
tripped up and fell heavily on her head.
Here, too, what is described In the Ger
man account as "a metal hairpin' was
driven into her skull with fatal results.
Teeth and the Wind
False teeth have not infrequently killed
their owners. A gentleman went down to
the beach at South Sea to bathe, and was
in the act of undressing. when he was
seen to tumble down. He was found blue
in the face and choking. and before any
thing could be done for him was dead.
1t was afterward discovered that he had
swallowed his plate. A very cold wind
was blowing at the time, and 1t is sup
posed that it was his shivering which
caused the tragedy. The moral seems
to be that either you should not bathe
on cold days. or that IL you must do so
you should leave your false teeth at
home.
AS we go to press comes the news Of
another extraordinary death, caused by
a dry shampoo. To a lady customers s
head was applied lotion of tetrachloride
of carbon. the fumes of which she in
hailed. This alone would not have been
sufficient to cause her death, but, unfor-
tuhately, the lady had weak heart. and
the jury found that its sudden failure
had certainly been accelerated by the
tetrachloride fumes.