BYGONE GRIMSBY: LABOURER BROKE BOTH LEGS WHILE 'LARKING ABOUT'

From the Hull Daily Mail (May 23, 1898)


ON Saturday afternoon George Carter, a labourer, employed by Messrs Hewitt Bros, the Brewery, Pasture Street, living at Abbey Walk, sustained two broken legs. 

After work was finished, Carter, with one or  two others, were 
"larking about" when he was accidentally pushed through a doorway on first floor and dropped about 20 feet. 

The force with which his feet struck the floor broke both his legs, and the poor fellow was at once conveyed to the hospital. 


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