CAUGHT BY A LIFT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18025, 25 February 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)

CAUGHT BY A LIFT.

NEW YORK BOY'S ORDEAL For an hour William Miller, aged 16 of New York, was held by his crushed legs between an elevator and the shaft in a storehouse at Brooklyn, after he probably had saved the lives of half a dozen children who were playing in it. Tho boy was passing the storehouse when he saw that the girls and boys had forced the door and wero jumping on and off the freight elevator, playing with the starting chain, and likely to be killed or injured should the lift move. Ho rushed toward it, and as ho did so one of the larger boys tugged at the chain a little harder than usual. The elevator started. Miller jumped for the 'rising platform, but as he did so his foot slipped. His body landed in the elevator, but his legs were wedged in one side. The elevator moved upward, and then stopped, halted by the legs it_ was crushing. The children, panic stricken, rushed off and fled to their homes, telling no one of what happened. An hour later Harry Satman, while passing tho open door, heard faint moans. He looked in and saw Miller, half unconscious. Satman tried hard to extricate him, but could not. He ran out and summoned a policeman, and the two released the boy. Ho wag taken unconscious in an ambulance to the Greenpoint Hospital, where it was found one knee was fractured and his legs badly cut.