Humpty Dumpty was a conceited fellow, as Alice discovered, and richly deserved his great fall, but although the king sent all four thousand two hundred and seven of his men, and all but two of his horses, they couldn't, as every child used once to know, put him back together again, which was sad for poor Humpty but resulted in one less bad egg to trouble society.
Theo Spark has posted a link to this story of life imitating art in The Daily Mail. Except to ask why a man who had no legitimate reason to be in another man's bedroom in the early hours of the morning, and fell four floors to his death trying to escape, should be described as an 'alleged' burglar, and to observe that, given the apparent circumstances, use of that adjective in this particular instance cannot but be subject to Humpty Dumpty's peculiar verbal modus operandi, there is nothing more to be said.
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