Show A WOMAN SCALPED Emma Wicks has Her Tresses Caught in the Machinery of an Ironing Shop Special THE HERALD Examiner Dlsnatch NEW YORK Dec 27 JJmma Wilcks I works in a steam laundry on Frst avenue and runs steam iroas over lie en goods She is an attractive looking woman with longhair long-hair which hung in curls upon shoulders Yesterday morning her hair became caught in the belting and she was carried suddenly upward by the hair Piercing screams aroused her fellow workers but the rap idly revolving belt drew hot to the ceiling where the bur pulley was twisting her curls into an inextricable knot Men were horror hor-ror stricken women shrieked and no friendly hand was raised to the rised stop machinery ma-chinery The hair on Mrs Wilcks head was twisted tightly around the pulley when the swiftly revolving machinery tore off her scalp and the poor woman fell in a heap to the floor bleeding ana unconscious Her hair and scalp had been removed a neatly a if she had been tha victim to tho keenedged tomahawk in the hands of a skillful chief The hospital surgeons hope to save her life and may make an attempt toreattach the severed scalp with the long hair still clinging to it |