The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-16
MIR. BURDENS BARBER's MsHAP.
Knocked Down stairs by Bundle of
SOiIed Clothes in the MilliOnaire's
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun
For many weeks it has been the custom
of Barber Frank Schiele of Twenty-sev-
enth street and Fifth avenue to go to
the residence of Mr. l. Townsend Burden,
at North Madison Square, every morn
ing, and shave the master of the house.
Barber Schiele made his last trip Mon
day morning. Since then his assistant
has gone in his stead, and thereby hangs
a tale 1t seems that there was a trag-
edy at the Burden mansion on Monday
morning and, as a result, Mr.. Schiele
has been confined ever since to a ward
in the New York hospital
The physicians say that it will be sew
eral weeks before the barber will be out
again. for his ankle is broken in three
places, and his body is badly bruised. One
looking at Mr.. Schiele as he now lies in
the hospital would be justified in thinking
that he had been attacked in the street
by thugs, for he is in a most demoraliZed
condition. AS a matter of fact, however,
his assailant was nothing more formida
BILE than a bundle of soled clothes, but it
came with deadly precision from a hight
and landed on Mr.. Schlele at most in
opportune moment. This is the story of
MIR, Schiele's encounter with the Burden
washing:
he packed his shaving case as usual and
started for the Burden residence. The
servants always expect him at about that
time, and he goes right up to Mr.. Bur
denis apartments undisturbed lays out
his implements, and then goes down to
the kitchen for hot water. Now right
through the center of the Burden house
is a large air shaft with stairs winding
up around it to the top floor. The ser
wants use the shaft stairs, and when Mr.
Schiele got his bowl of not water in the
basement on Monday morning, he started
up by that way. carefully carrying the
bowl in front of him.
| of millionaires as well as in the domiciles
of the less wealthy, and about the time
that Barber Schiele started up stairs the
! servants had gathered all the soiled
/ clothes in the house in bundle, on the
! top floor, and were preparing to save
! themselves the trouble of carrying il
/ down stairs by hurting it down the shaft
| The servants couldn't see the barber over
/ the top of their bundle and Schiele was
/ too busy watching the bowl of water to
/ look up and see If all was well above his
route. Schiele was near the first floor
! hiding when the servant dropped the bun
die, and he caught its fun weight squarely
! on the top of his head. Down he went
/ splitting the water all over himself and
rolling in anything but a graceful fashion
! to the bottom.
His howls brought the servants down
stairs at the double quick, and when they
! reached the PROSTATE Schiele, they found
! the angriest and most helpless barber in
! New York. He couldn't rise and he was
| speechless with rage. When he did re-
cover himself. he cried:
Get doctor, you idiots, you've broken
my leg
When a doctor came he verified the bar
| ber's suspicious. The ankle was broken
| in three places, he said, and he advised
/ the removal of the man TO the hospital
] So an ambulance was summoned from The
/ New York hospital and Schiele was taken
! there.
Mr.. Burden was very indignant when
he heard of the accident to Schiele, and in
the future the servants will not attempt
to save themselves work by throwing
/ things down the shaft