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Show HARD FALL BY BURGLAR. Took Two Hours and Several Policemen Police-men to Got Him Out. NEW YORK, Dec. 3. With "Jimmies" lie hud left behind policemen and hospital hospi-tal surgeons worked for two hours to release an alleged burglar from a sub-cellar sub-cellar In the rear of Nos. 4 and 6, "West Fourteenth street, where he had fallen or Jumped after an exciting chase. The man gave his name as Adolph Newman, 23 yearn old. Internal injuries and a fractured leg sustained in dropping twenty-five feet probably will cause his death. Thousands of persons gathered In Fifth avenue, while the rencue wna bo-lng bo-lng made and while ropes were let down Into tho ehaft to hoist Newman, his groans could be plainly heard -.In tho avenue. So great was the fellow's pain that he repeatedly begged the policemen tb end his sufferings with a oullct. Newman had succeeded in entering a fur storo In Fourteenth street, Just off Fifth avenue, and is said to be wrapped up furs valued at 55000, when a watchman watch-man on tho floor above heard him. Challenged by the watchman, tho Interloper In-terloper called back that he wns one of the workmen and began to whistle. Knowing that all the men loft nt 5 In tho evening, the watchman huiried downstairs and the man rushed to tho rear of the building In tho center of which Is a narrow air shaft with a skylight sky-light betweon tho second and third J'.oors and another glass and wire covering on the first floor above a aub-ccllar. "When Newman reached the end of tho room thero was the sound of breaking glass and a crash below followed by a second nols near the foot of tho shaft. Policemen were summoned, and with lanterns, they searched a long time for the alleged burglar. Lights wore lowered low-ered into the shaft and he was finally located at the buttom of a sub-cellar Into In-to which ho had fallen after crawling from the alrshaft. It was a long Job to get the man up to the nearest window twenty-five feet above, after policemen had been lowered low-ered and adjusted ropes. With every loot's progress Newman Bhrlekcd with pain and his cries, heard on the street, added to the excitement of the crowd. |