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Show WORKMAN IS TORN TO PIECES ON A FAST-REVOLVING SHAFT. 4 Supposed Prank in a Plaster Mill on Stolen Island, N. Y., Ends in Horrible Death of Victim. Now York. Ono workman killed anothor In tho mixing room of a plaster plas-ter works, nt Richmond Torraco, Now Drlghton, S. I., early tho othor morning by tying him to a rovolvlng flywheel shnft. Frank Getznor, 35 years old, a Russian, who has been In this country only two months planning plan-ning to mako a homo for hls'wlfe and four chlldron, was tho victim. "No. 203," whose name is believed., to bo Mela, Is wantod by the police to explain ex-plain the death ot Getzner. The mixing room, in which the mon wero working, contains within a radius radi-us ot about 35 feot about four machines, ma-chines, which mix cemont and pour U Into six bags attached to the bot- A Shriek of Agony Came from the Man. torn. A gang ot six mon work nt each mnchlno two flllorB, who attend to tho tilling and weighing ot tho bags; two sowors, who seal tho bags, and two truckers, who tako tho hags out on a hnnd truck to tho boats moorod to tho dock, which Is on a lovol with tho mixing room. Tho omn enraged In this work aro Poles and Italians. Thoy tako turns at being flllors, sowers sow-ers and truckors. Getznor, who was a truckor, was dozing on a pllo of bags at 3:30 o'clock waiting for tho sower to finish his work when anothor workman slipped a ropo over his right log and throw tho othor ond over a shnft about olght feet overhead and secured It. Tho noxt moment a shriek of ngony mndo tho mon desert tholr machines and Btand back horror-stricken nt tho ghastly sight which confronted thorn. Dangling by tho ropo from tho shnft was a human leg, and further an arm, clutching tho rope with convulslvo-ncss convulslvo-ncss of a doath grip. Dolow on tho floor lay tho bleeding body of Gotz-' ner, horribly mangled, with the faco battered almost beyond recognition.' The men turned away sick at heart. The shaft kopt rovolvlng with the ghastly evidence attached to It. Finally Final-ly ono man broko away from the group and running to the onglno room, yelled to Engineer Alexander Schiller: "Stop tho machinery! A man has been killed!" ' Schlllor stopped tho machlnory and then wont back with tho man to tho mixing room. Ily this timo tho foreman fore-man had nppoarod. Tho workmen woro busy cutting down tho leg and tho arm from tho shaft, Whon they had comploted this work thoy wore sont back to tholr machines. Then It was found that "No. 203" was missing. miss-ing. Immodlatoly tho crlmo was fas-toned fas-toned upon him. |