The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-09-13
Wouldn't Be Cut Up.

OF ether, used on a patient in the
cot next to that in which he lay, that
he was to be operated upon, says The
New York Evening Post, Charles
Hartling, a switchman for the Inter
borough Railway, who was injured in
collision on the subway etension
at Freeman street and southern bou.
levard, yesterday, leaped out of his
bed in Lebanon Hospital this morn
ing, clad only in an undershirt, and
in spite of the efforts of surgeons and
nurses, escaped from the building
and ran to his home, several blocks
away.
On the way he leaped down
twenty-five foot wall from the hos
pital grounds to Caldwell avenue, re-
ceiviDg only few bruises in the de-
scent. He ran so fast, with his un.
dershirt tapping about his legs, that
his pursuers, including a bicycle po-
liceman, were outdistanced. When
he reached his house, he ran upstairs
to his wife, to whom he had been mar
ried only few months, and told her
he was not going to stay in the hos
pitel and be cut up for nothing, 80 he
had come home.
BY the time Hartling's wife had re-
covered from her astonishment, and
had put some clothes on her husband,
the bicycle policeman appeared, and
wanted to arrest him. But his wife
refused to let him be taken away, and
the other tenants in the house pro-
tested 80 vigorously against the mans
removal that the policeman let Hart
ling along. He is now under treat
ment by private physician, who says
he will recover. He signed a release
os e.! blame 70 .he hospital. when Su-
perintendent Daub sent an ambulance
to take him back there, and declared
that he preferred his wife's care to
that of the hospital nurses and sur
geons.
Hartling was caught between two
cars on the elevated extensica of the
subway, and was badly crushed. The
surgeons at Lebanon Hospital said he
suffered internal injuries, but they ad.
mitted today that for man with in.
ternal injuries, he could give a long
start many sprinters not suspected Of
being unsound.
In the next cot to Har.ling this
morning was man upon whom the
surgeons were about to operate. The
switchman smelled the fumes Of the
ether, and became alarmed, fearing
that they were about to ''out him mp"
When he was unwatchad for mo-
ment he leaped from his cot, in his
ialaa5Tshirt, and ran out Of the ward, !,
which is on the FIRST floor. He reach.
ed the hospital yard, with a string Of,
nurses, surgeons end other employees
after him. His escape by the main
gate was barred. but that did not wor.
ry him. With his single gam ent
Tapping about him as heran, he dash
ed to the edge Of the wall, next to
Caldwell avenue, where there is q drop
Of twenty-five feet to the sidewalk.
He was over the wall In Q second,
with his pursuers q few feet behind,
and he dropped to the street, suffering
only q few scratches and bruises. He
was upsinsa moment, and running like
the wind towards Third avenue, with
q string Of hospital attendants after
him. a large crowd followed, too,
but most of those init evidently
thought him crazy and dared not in.
terfere with him. He ran down Third
avenue 20 15Oth street, and then vest
to histhome. He dashed through "a
knot Of his neighbors on the stoopto
his own fat on the first floor. VI 4 a.
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