Sunday, March 25, 2007

When The Twins Traveled

A curious scene was witnessed at King's Cross station, London, the other Saturday on the arrival of the express from Edinburgh. Two women, known as the sisters Rosa and Josepha Blazek, who are in many respects similar to the Siamese twins being joined together from the waist downward, stepped out on the platform. They alighted without difficulty, and walked to the barrier. Here however there was a difficulty, for the twins presented only one ticket. After a long conference between the collector, a policeman, and the friend of the joint couple they were allowed to pass the barrier. It is to be supposed that the puzzle was too great for ordinary people to solve.

--Thousandsticks, Middlesboro, Kentucky, March 30, 1911, page 7.

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