The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-28
Young Lady's Skull Frac-
tured by the Falling Of
a Cash Box.
HER CONDITION VERY SERIOUS
The Dry Goods Man, 1t Is Said,
Trying to Prove the Accident
Never Took Place In
His Store.

Miss Ella J. Kilburn of No Is Glenwood
avenue, who is well known in society on the
Hill, met with serious accident while shop
ping in Furst's dry goods store, on Saturday
evening, April IA. She is at present lying at
her home in very precarious condition.
Mr.. Furst has made every attempt to keep
the matter quiet
The accident occurred about nine o'clock
in the evening when the store was crowded.
Miss Kilburn, with her mother, was stand
ing at the hat counter, when one of the
heavy iron cash boxes, which run on rods
and wires, jumped or dropped from the
tracks and struck Miss Kilburn on the head.
The sharp corner of the box penetrated her
skull and made an ugly wound from which
blood flowed profusely. Miss Kilburn gave
shrek as the box struck her, and fell un-
conscious in her mothers arms. Shoppers
at once crowded around the injured young
lady, but no one offered to get her chair or
even as much as a glass of water.
FLOOR WALKERS HAD NO TINE.
The hoorwalker who was on duty treated
the matter with the utmost Indifference. He
suggested that Miss Kilburn be taken to the
third story, where there are chairs, in the
elevator. Mrs. Kilburn, knowing that the
ride in the elevator would only make her
daughter more ill, refused to go upstairs,
and requested the hoorwalker to bring a
chair downstairs, but that naughty in
dividual didn't have time:-
swell, then," said Mrs. Kilburn ''get me
some sort of conveyance so that / can
take my daughter home Immediately or elss
send for a doctor.n
~ can't get a conveyance" replied the
foorwalker. 1.-THE trolley car will do well
enough, take that"
Seeing that it would be useless to wait for
the firm to render assistance, Mrs. Kilburn
carried her daughter to the cars and took
her home
DR.. Hornblower was Immediately sum
moned, and an examination was made of
Miss Kilburn's injuries. The doctor found
that her skull had been fractured and said
that it was very serious case.
At half past eleven O'Clock on the Sunday
morning following DIR. Baunann visited
Mrs. Kilburn, and said that he had come at
the request of Mr.. Furst, to examine her
daughters injuries. He asked if she slept
soundly during the night and if she was nm
proving.
'Well, if we had to wait for you she
would have been dead,n replied Mrs. Kill
burn as she ordered him to leave the house.
/ During the past. week Miss Kilburn has
suffered much pain, and the prospect of her
complete recovery is very slight The skull,
from the forehead 10 the rear of the head, is
open. Lockjaw has set in and for the past
week she has been unable to take any solid
food. Her entire right side is paralyzed,
and she is almost helpless.
WHAT FURST IS TRYING TO PROVE.
Now that the accident has resulted so
seriously, Mr.. Furst, it is said, is endeavor-
ing to prove that it never happened, in spite
of the fact that Mrs. Kilburn has scores Of
witnesses to prove it did.
Mrs. Kilburn. when interviewed by re-
porter of The JERSEY CITY NEWS last even
ing said:-"I was treated In a most shame
full manner by the employees of the concern.
The 1oorwalker would not even provide my
daughter with chair. 1t was easy to be
seen that she was seriously injured, and yet
no one ever offered to do as much as secure
fan. The foorwalker manifested the ut
most indifference and would not even sum-
mon a coach for me. had to take the troll
ley car. Mr.. Furst is endeavoring to prove
that my daughter was not injured in his
store and yet he sends DR.. Baumann to my
house to see how she is getting along. l have
numerous witnesses of the affair, and MIR.
Furst will hear from me before long,"
MR.. FURST'S DENIALs.
A NEWS reporter saw Mr.. Myron Furst
about the matter and told him OF the condf-
tion of Miss Kilburn. He said that he was
very sorry to hear that it was SO serious,
but that the doctor that they sent said that
it was only mere scratch. The reporteR
asked if he could see the woman who waited
upon Miss Kilburn Mr.. Furst answered
that Miss Kilburn had not been purchasing
articles at the time that she was struck by the
basket. He said the stories that he had de-
MED the fact that the accident had taken
place in the store, and that his employees
had refused to send for a carriage, we're -
pack Of lies and nothing else"
"Wes let the young lady go home In q
street car" said he, "because it was easier
riding; than being jolted over the paving
stones in hack"