Vie Opettator
JANUARY 19, 1833
APPARATUS has lately been constructed in Brompton Church for the purpose of warming it with hot air; and, in order to guard against accident by fire, a wall was built round the furnace. The man employed in the structure, which is formed of bricks and Roman cement, continued steadily at his work by the light of a candle until it was complete; and it was not until he had inserted the last brick (on Saturday last), and was as perfectly "built in" as ever an unhappy martyr in the days of persecution, that he discovered his error, and remembered he was working within the circle instead of out. His first impulse was to pull out the last few bricks, and thus make himself a place of exit; but it was now too late, the cement had already hardened, and defied all his efforts to undo. In this distressing dilemma he remained for a considerable time, calling in vain for help. His pitiable situation was at length discovered by one of the churchwardens and the sexton, who, after considerable difficulty, succeeded in extricating him from his imprisonment.
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