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Show II SKULL BROKEN I IN SHORT FALL Packing Plant Worker Lies in Critical Condition at Hospital James W; Haywood a helper in the 'stden Packing & Provision company riant on West Twenty-fourth street, rur at 95U Sullivan avenue. BUf- fered a fractured skull as the result 'i of a fall down the .levator shaft at tbe jd.irtt i hlx morning and Is lylns in a critical condition at the Doe hospital. hos-pital. Packing company officers said thnj Hrywood appeared for work at 7 O'clock and walked through a passageway. pass-ageway. Intending f go to the upstalrb dressing room. Whether the elevator dnoi on the first floor had been left open or whether Heywood absent-mindedly absent-mindedly opened the door and step-I ped into the pit they were unable to say. Heywood was discovered at th ' I Mom of the shaft about a half hour I later oy a mniwuu. to oil the machinery He had fallen i a. distance of 10 feet anffr struck on I the forehead, as a mark over the right eye indicates. Dr. E. R Dumke who attended the Injured man at the hospital, said that the skull was fractured at th" base ' ..nd that on account of Heywood s age, II; which is about 50 doultt as to hi- re- Ljjj, covery was felt. Heywood this af ternoon was reported still unrons. lous |