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Show TROUSERS HELD HIM IN AIR FOUR HOURS MARPLE, Pa, Dec 6. After hanging hang-ing by the seat of his trousers for four hours, seventy, feet above the ground, Harry Franks was discovered by fellow fel-low workers and rescued. Franks had been working alone on a derrick at th Quarrla when he slipped, and In falling his trousers caught on a wire. Thus he hung, expecting ex-pecting every moment to be dashed to the ground below and scarcely daring to cry for help or attempt to seize the wire with bis hands. Finally, when he was In a fainting condition some one noticed his plight and after several unsuccessful at-tcmps at-tcmps dragged him to safety by means of a rope. |