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Show WORK TWO HOURS TO RESCUE INJURED THIEF -Burglar Falls Down an Airshaft While In the Attempt to Make His Escape. the first floor above a sub-cellar. - When Newman reached the end of the room there was the sound of breaking rlasa and a crash below followed by a second noise near the foot of the shaft. Policemen were summoned, and with lanterns, they searched a long time for the alleged burglar. Lights were lowered low-ered Into the shaft and he was finally located at the buttom of a. sub-cellar Into In-to which he -had fallen after crawling from the airshaft. It was a long Job to gret 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 shrieked with pain and his cries, heard on the street, added to the excitement ol the crowd. NEW- YORK. Dec J. With "jimmies" .he had left behind policemen and hospi tal surgeons worked for two hours to release an alleged burglar from a sub-cellar sub-cellar In the rear of Koa. 4 and t. West Fourteenth street, where he had fallen or Jumped after an exciting chsse. The "man gave his name as Adolph Newman. -3 years old. Internal Injuries and a fractured leg sustained In dropping twenty-five feet probably will -.use hU death. Thousands of persons gathered in Fifth avenue, while the rescue was being be-ing made and while ropes were let down Into the shaft to hoiift Newman, his groans could be plainly heard in the - avenue. So great was the fellow's pain ' that he repeatedly begged the policemen to end his sufferings with a bullet Newman had succeeded in entering t fur store In Fourteenth street. Just off Fifth avenue, and is said to be wrapped t:p furs valued at $5000, when a watchman watch-man on the floor above heard him. Challenged by the watchman, the Interloper In-terloper called back that he was one of the workmen and began to whistle. Knowing that all the men left at 5 In the evening, the watchman huiried downstairs and the man rushed to the' rear of the building in the center of which is a -narrow air shaft with a skylight sky-light between the second and third floors : and anoer glass and wire covering on |