NEW YORK TUBE STANDSTILL
MYSTERY STOPPAGE. Thousands of 'New Yorkers arrived late at .their offices to-day, owing to a practical joker or a disgruntled employee stopping alb trains on one of the city’s main underground railway lines by switching off the electric current. At first engineers attributed the stopping, of; the crowded trains to mechanical breakdowns. Hurried investigations, however, revealed that one emergency switch after another was being turned off by someone who had gained access to the tunnels. . It was discovered that one switch, after being turned off, had been tied down with apocket handkerchief. An exhaustive search was made for the mysterious intruder, who, in hurrying along several miles of track, must have risked his life constantly, but he eluded capture. At one station fares were- refunded to 3.000 passengers.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 December 1936, Page 10
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