ABSTRACT
‘I have swallowed a spoon’ was the amazing statement made to police who were taking Joseph Tyson, an electrician, to Preston Prison. He was removed to Preston Infirmary and examined under the x-rays, when a metallic substance was located near the stomach. An operation for its removal was performed, but Tyson still remains in the Infirmary in a serious condition. It appears that he broke off the bowl of the spoon and swallowed the shank end. He was under remand on a charge of obtaining £120 by false pretences from a woman to whom he had proposed marriage.
