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Show IN AN ICE POX. A liny Via. Imprisoned ami Karri 1.1 trapetl I reeling. Oreenport (LI.) correspondence New York Press Although Harry Doyle't fingers, toet and esrs are frozen, he la glsd to be stive. Doyle l. 14 years old snd delights In awlstlng ills elder brother Oeorge, who Is employed In ins meat ahop of C II. Wiggins. Tha other night Harry helped George store the expoted beef In the big Ice box. Unseen Un-seen by Oeorge. Harry shouldered the last piece ot beef and carried It to Its freezing bed llefore the boy, having accomplished hit tssk, could turn and make his way back, Mr Wiggins chanced to enter the market, saw the refrigerator open and closed It. At the moment the spring lock clicked Harry realized hla peril, and began to shout and kick the thick walla of hit prison, but no sound wat heard outside, out-side, lly the merest chanco one ot Mr. Wiggins' clerks, who waa working later than usual, had occasion to open the Ice box, and the first flash ot the electric elec-tric lights he turned on revealed the form of young Doyle. The boy wat unconscious when dragged from bis Icy cell, hit ears, toes and finger having frozen In a half hour. Another thirty minutes of subjection to the freezing temperature would have -resulted In death |