Man Trapped By Lift
(N.Z. Press Association— Copyright) SYDNEY, June 8. Screams for help led to the discovery of a 54-year-old storeman who was trapped by his legs in a goods lift in a Sydney building. The man, William Stanley Giles, of Lidcombe, was trapped for 70 minutes and for the first 10 minutes of his ordeal—before rescuers heard his cries—he prayed that no-one on an upper floor pressed the lift button to go up. “If anyone had,” an ambulance officer said later, “he would have lost both, his legs.” During the hopr-long attempts to free the man, rescuers first tried hacking through the concrete walls of the building. Finally doctors who were called to the scene dosed Giles with morphine and lowered the lift. It was the only way to free him. Giles tonight is in a serious condition in Sydney Hospital. Both his legs are crushed but no bones are broken.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28299, 10 June 1957, Page 8
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