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Show YOUNG WOMAN HAS JAW BROKEN Salt Lake, Sept. 19. Frightened at the starting of an elevator, Miss Marian Mar-ian Klein, 17 years of age, of Baltimore, Balti-more, a guest at the Newhouse hotel, yesterday plunged headlong down an elevator shaft In tho Walker bank 'building, corner Second South and Main streets. She fell about one and one-half stories, landing on her left jaw, breaking the jaw bono In several places, bruising herself about the head and body, and escaping death In a miraculous manner. The accident occurred at 3:50 o'clock yesterday afternoon, In elevator eleva-tor shaft No. 4, the farthest south in the building. The elevator operator says Miss Klein was standing by the elevator when he descended. He opened the door and discharged his passengers, and the elevator was not quite level with the floor. He was bringing it even with the floor when Miss Klein suddenly stepped in. Feeling Feel-ing herself lifted, she lost her balance, became alarmed, grabbed the operator, opera-tor, pulling him to his knees and shook his hand from the lever. Attempting At-tempting to stop the machine, which was rapidly going upward, the operator opera-tor saw Miss Klein plunge over tho edge of the elevator and drop into darkness beneath, from about the top of the first, or ground floor. Doctors Soon Arrive. When he got control of the car, the operator, assisted by other employees of the building, went down to the basement, where the girl had fallen, and found Miss Klein, bleeding profusely pro-fusely from the mouth and chin, in a dazed condition. The management of the Walker bank building immediately called for the emergency ambulance, and telephoned tele-phoned for Dr. Ralph T. Richards. The emergency hospital was also notified no-tified to send for the city physician, and both arrived .almost as soon as Miss Klein was brought In by the ambulance. am-bulance. Miss Marian Klein is a "beautiful young woman. She came to Salt Lake from Los Angeles two weeks ago. Sho roomed at the Newhouse hotel, where, with her roommate, Mrs. M. Zimmon, she was preparing to go on the Orpheum circuit, Mrs. Zimmon being a singer and Miss Klein an accompanist. ac-companist. They had planned on putting put-ting on their act in about three weeks, and In the meantime the young woman wom-an had secured a position at Kelth-O'Brlen's Kelth-O'Brlen's and was to have begun work this morning. |