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Show i SWALLOWED A L'A: M'FV " ' p'eculiap.Accident That Mappenedr'to a, Four-Year-Old. ChiloV- ' ' When Edward Lang, a driver for a department store in New York City, returned home Saturday" nigtit, he laid on the dining room table the small electric lamp and battery which he uses after dark to read the' names on door bells in delivery of goods. About noon Sunday his little daughter Anna, 4 years old, espied the lamp. The child touched the button and the little bulb glowed. Then she put the bulb in her mouth; It was but an inch long and; about half an inch in circumference. Somehow the bulb broke" off and slipped' down her throat.' Her mother heard the child strangling and ran to her as-sistance, as-sistance, and the father hurried for a physician. He was gone half an hour, and found no doctor home. He then decided to call an ambulance and the child was removed to a hospital and tracheotomy performed. Before the operation was completed little Anna was dead. The physicians finally located lo-cated the glass bulb in the child's left nostril. " It is supposed the mother had aa s Jrardin ho infant's throat, but that the child was too far gone 'to breathe and really died of strangulation. |