Show BOY CAUGHT BY ELEVATOR TOY DIRECTS DIRECT S OWN RESCUE NEW YORK Jul July 22 Little 22 Little Henry 1 Peterson Peterson Peterson-he he is 13 years old and the son of Henry Peterson superintendent superintendent dent cf Df f the Trinity Court apartments at No West Vest One Hundred and Eleventh street street managed managed to save sae his life lite yesterday afternoon when he suddenly suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly found himself pinioned between the tIie elvator and the steel stell grated shaft in the building lie He had tried to run the car down when the accident hn happened happened hap hap- His right leg and right arm were caught fast tast and the bones crushed as the car sank below the level of ot the I third floor Against the shock of It I the boy retained his presence of ot mind sufficiently to seize the elevator lever with his left hand and shut off the power Then he screamed for tor help Miss Helen E E. E Stern at the telephone switchboard ran Into the street anu ann called caned Policeman Reynolds of the West Vest One Hundred and Twenty fifth street police station In turn he summoned a Knickerbocker hospital ambulance and hook and ladder company No 22 from One Hundred and Thirteenth street and Amsterdam avenue Di Dr Harold l E L. Smith of the Knickerbocker Knick Knick- hospital got into the elevator and found It Impossible to extricate th th little fellow Later he spoke admirIngly admiringly admiringly of the bo boys boy's s courage He lie didn didn't t whisper once heHe he sala He was nearly fainting several times time s and I gave him hypodermic injections injection S of stimulants Then he made suggestions suggestions suggestions about the best way to get hi him t o out He thought the quickest wa way tY Y would be to saw away the floor 1 Then the firemen got there and the they Y worked for nearly an hour and finally Y managed with crowbars to work th the elevator back far enough In the shah n so that we could free the boys boy's a arm armand armand and leg Naturally on being released release d the crushed half benumbed limbs be began began began be- be gan to give him most intense pain I told him not to mind that mind that I Id I'd d take him to the hospital and wed we'd stop the pain You never saw such a game kI kid kie He looked at me and wanted to to 0 know if It he went to the hospital would it cost ost his father a lot of money I told I him not a cent He said All right Doc shoot your ambulance Benjamin Brown negro nero elevator boy was arrested b by Policeman Reynolds and charged with felonious assault The arrest was WM made on the I of 1 Mist Stern tern that she saw young Peterson and Brown start up In the elevator and overheard Brown tell th limb boy boj t that at he was going to answer a a. call from an apartment on the third floor and that young Peterson might run the car to the ground round floor in ca case e ean an any persons should enter while the elevate elevator tor boy hoy wa was absent nb |