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Show New York Tenement Girls Meet Pitiful Death At Play NEW YORK, Aug. 3 U'.l!) Marilyn Murphy 9, joined her playmate, Lorraine Chinchar, 10, in death today another victim of New York's crowded tenement districts. Like thousands of other children, chil-dren, Marilyn and Lorraine had been playing- on the roofs -of the five-story tenements in their East River neighborhood, away from the hot pavements and heavy traffic. V With Marilyn leading, the girls started to climb a crass a narrow shaft to an adjoining roof. As they stepped upon a. strip of wire mesh concealed by tar paper, which formed a covering over the shaft, the rusted wire gave way. The children plunged five floors down the shaft, which was 22 inches wide at the top but only 10 near the bottom. There they stuck. Four thousand persons watched the rescue efforts of an heroic ambulance surgeon, police and firemen. They cheered when Patrolman Pa-trolman William Goodman was lowered into the shaft at the end of a rope held by comrades, and removed Lorraine. She died a few hours later. Gossman reported that he could not reach Marilyn. Her fall had left her wedged in a cranny from which she could be extricated only by breaking through an eight-inch brick wall beside her. Police and firemen went to work, and between the blows of chisels and crowbars the rescuers heard Marilyn moaning that her back hurt, that she wanted her mother. Dr. Phillip Zoller, an interne, demanded that police lower him into the shaft. Police protested that the risk was too great. "I think that girl's back is broken," said Zoller, 180-pound former New York university foot- ball player. "If she isn't handled properly, she'll die. I'm going down." Zoller found Marilyn too seriously seri-ously injured to be hoisted to the roof, even had he been able to extricate her. He gave her a sedative, told her she was "a brave little girl" and by shouting, directed the attack on the wall. Forty-five minutes after the first sledgehammer had been swung Marilyn was lifted out through a three-foot hole. A jikIo plunk stretcher and splints h.id ' been prepared. Zoller climbed out i after the child and worked on her for a few minutes before placing her in an ambulance. Marilyn waved an arm feebly, and stammered broken thanks to her rescuers. "I'm not going to cry," she whispered, "I want my mother." Six hours later she died. |