The watch-chain was almost completely destroyed, only a few links remaining.

Together with some fused coins, these were found close by, and are deposited in a closed box in the Museum.

According to Orman's account of the affair, he first felt a violent blow on the chest and shoulders, and then he was involved in a blinding light and hurled into the air.

He said he never lost consciousness; but when at the hospital he seemed very deaf and stupid.

He was discharged perfectly cured twenty weeks after the occurrence.