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Show LOOKED HOURS IN BANK VAULT Clerk Reseued in Unconscious Condition Is Revived by Pulmotor. GOES TO THE MOVIES When Questioned by His Parents Denies De-nies Thrilling Experience in Which He Was Near Death From Asphyxiation. New York. Locked In an air-tight steel vault far below the street level In the Metropolitan building. Twenty-third Twenty-third street aud Fourth avenue, for nearly two hours, Frederick J. Schweer, Jr., a clerk In the Metropolitan Metropoli-tan bank, was rescued just in time to save his life. The boy was unconscious uncon-scious when lifted out. An ambulance surgeon from Bellevue hospital, who had been waiting more than an hour with a pulmotor, began work on him. 'Die lad, suffering when he tirst revived, re-vived, from shock and hysteria, made such a rapid recovery that after he reached his home at 100 Chestnut avenue, ave-nue, Jersey City, he ale a belated supper sup-per and hurried out to the movies without telling his parents of his thrilling experience. And when he came back he stubbornly denied that: he had been in the vault at all. Watchman Hears Tapping. It was just before seven o'clock that John Connollv, the hank watchman, making his ,'omids on the subway level, hei.."d a steady lap, tap, tap at the door of a big vault used for the safekeeping of books and records. At first Connolly thought some one was trying to break in. Then he became sure it was some one trying to break out and (lashed for a telephone. August C. Corby, second vice president presi-dent and cashier of the bank, was just entering his home, 215 West One Hundred Hun-dred and First street, when he got the watchman's hurry call. Corby was the nearest official who knew the combination. combi-nation. His automobile was outsido and he broke all traffic regulations getting get-ting to the bank. Connolly meantime had notified Patrolman Pa-trolman Darcy of the East Twenty-second Twenty-second street station, on nearby post, and Darcy had summoned Doctor Mae-Manus Mae-Manus with the pulmotor. There was some delay in getting the vault open, which was not explained, . M O |