Chair to A Cripple -- crippled pensioner will buy a motorised wheelchair with the £150 given by Sunday Sun readers. He is George McConnell, 42. of Shepherd Street. Darlington, who, crippled since birth by Poliomyelitis, has been unable to leave his house. In September last year The Sunday Sun told how he washed, mended and cared for his daughter Marie, 4, for three years since his wife's death. January 14, 1951.