The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-08-30
DID NOT WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE,
A Child Climbs Out of n Firth-story Win.
dow to Call Her "Granny."
New York Herald

New York Herald
number of persons called Yesterday
upon Mrs. Murphy, of No. 23a West Thirty
third street, to see her little gran child,
Christina Collins, who miraculously es.
capped death, The Murphy family occu.
pies the front apartment of the fifth hoor
OF the tenement building at the above al.
dress. Mrs. Murphy was alone with the
little child, six years old, all SATURDAY af-
ternoon The little one played about thu
rooms until exhausted, and then, throwing
herself upon the lounge. was soon fast
asleep. While the child was sleeping the
grandmother thought she would improve
the opportunity BY going 10 the grocery
store for some tea she locked the door
and started out Mrs. Murphy hurried
quickly tn the store, and was soon back in
the neighborhood Of heI home. A. she
approached the place 8 spectacle was pre-.
scented that made her tremble with fright.
Away up on the fifth hoor, hanging from
the window.sill Of her rooms. she heheld
her granddaughter, while over five hun.
dred people stood in the street shouting to
the little one suspended above.
Mrs Murphy tainted AMI fell to the
pavement in = Swoon number Of
Nuliircu recppi'k 'l tue woman dN'l TAN
toward her. She had tho KEY OF the room
in her hand, and this was quickly gra,pei
by the onlooser-. pulicem IN " oloney, OF
the Thirty .seventh Street Station, hap
pened TO be passing during the excitement.
He pushed up the stairs until the room
door u the Murphys WAS reached He
was about TO break the door in when the
key WAS banded to him. A moment more
and a pair OF strong hands graspet the
tiny limbs Of the lit le one that clutched
on % the ~indowsll. II child was then
lifted into tho room, amid many express
sion' of rali-f FROM the spectators below.
A few men who held blankets On the side
walk ready to receive the child in case she
let go now threw their life. preserver,"
one side There wa, joy ON tue block, and
Tor the remainder VI the night the child's
marvellous escape furnished topic VI talk
Tor the mel. hborhond.
Little Christina seemed the least dis
posed 10 treat her great feat with any
seriousness. She grew ,urly aud mornsr,
and refused 70 answer the thousand ques-
tons put to her BY the roomful Of people.
When the excitement had subsidized an ex
animation Of the window was made. 1t
was seen that the child, by lowering her
self feet first, could just get u foothold on
the Intel II the window underneath. In
is way she got purchase that sustained
her weight, and by c!inging T. the window
s..l she kept herself from falling. The lit.
tie one. though she easily reached this po-
sitiou, could not have got back 10 the room
without a,sistanc'. she had once luokei
down upon he excited multitude below, ur
wa, compelled to remain y minute Ion ger
in her perlluu, position, there is little
doubt that she would hlv- let go her holt.
Yesterday, when questioned by a Usrdid
reporter, Christina said that she wanted
o. get ont and found the door locked She
said SHE was afraid O remain alone in the
room, ami wa go ny To call her granny"
out OF the window.
Mrs. MURPHY was FRUSTRATED all day yes
terday, Size said il was the last time any
Of the children would be permitted to re.
main home alone.