IMPRISONED DIGGER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16475, 20 October 1927, Page 5

IMPRISONED DIGGER

RELEASED AFTER 30 DOERS

WOOSTER (Mass.), Sept. 2.

Millions of people throughout the country breathed a sigh of relief this morning upon learning from the newspapers that Mr. Fred Lenau, who had been imprisoned at tho bottom of a 4Cff well ,he was digging at . Auburn, bad been rescued 30 hours after the. walls had caved in. Fifteen hundred sympathising citizens, headed by the Mayor, all anxious to do anything possible on his behalf, assembled at the scene of rescue, where a corps of volunteers were It antic,-illy digging a hole* close beside the well in an effort to got down to Lennu's level.

The problem was to get him out without releasing the tons of sand and debris above him. which bad been kepi lYon; smothering him by ail arch of brokc-n boards lie bad user! in shoring up Ihr walls of (be well. He bad been kept supplied with aT through a garden hose, but it was thought unsafe to feed him with liquids through ii for fear of smothering him as he lay helpless uridei lho pressure of wreckage upon his body, when the slightest movement might have cost him his life. After being removed from the well Lenau was rushed to hospital in an ambulance, where, nftei careful examination, it was reported that no hones were broken and that be would probably recover.