The Archive · 1930

In Time to Give Pleasure

Within a few hours the superintendent of the Albert and King. George V Docks traced the case which was then sent. off by a. special messenger in a taxicab just in time to catch the 2 p.m. train from Evaton for the North. Mrs "Immediately we got the message, we sent the case by special messenger in a taxi-cab to Euston, and it was just in time to catch the 2 o'clock train," said an oficial of Messrs. Hewett to the "Daily News" last night. "We sent a telegram advising its arrival, and have since Hieard that the boy lived just long enough to assemble the parts. He apout three days putting together, and died peacefully a few hours after he had completed it.

"The cause of the delay was the death of the shipping "agent who handled the cuse at Shanghai. We jed and told that the model jun! whs.on its way to their home. Mrs. Gartington received the package at the station and hurried back home.

"We carried the toy into his bedroom and his eyes lit. up with joy at the sight of the huge model," said Mrs. Carrington, "At last my junk has come," whispered the lad weakly as he hogan to piece it together. Three day after having received the toy, Geoffrey succumbed. The parents are certain that the gratification of the wish of the boy, while on his death-bed, prolonged his life.

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