New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-25
Axemen Rescue Three
After Five Hours
i'm Elevator
CRIES MUFFLED
IN LIFT SHAFT
Family Away, Son Hears
Alarm-BringS Police
to Seek Thieves

Valentine f. Macy. jr., a student at
Hotohkiss School. got home from a
dinner at 1880 yesterday morning. HIS
father, " Everit Macy, and the rest OF
the family had gone to their country
place in Westchester County. The
house at 81 West Fifty-sixth Street
took on extraordinary and gloomy pro-
portions as soon as the young man
opened the door
Laying down his keys, Macy picked
up several letters which were on the
hall table. He was examining them
when a startling clangor filled the
place. Il was the burglar alarm. Drop
ping the letters. Macy flung the door
wide and dashed outside. The door
slammed behind him, and with the
click Of the spring latch he realized
that his KEYS were still on the hall
table.
Calls for Police Aid
He found a public telephone and
was connected with the East FIFTY
first Street police station. Patrolmen
Solomon and Lyman were sent TO the
house.
Under Macy's direction they exam
ined all the accessible windows and
doors. None had been forced and the
burglar alarm had stopped ringing
Lyman suggested that the intruders
had cot in by way Of the scuttle. lie
went TO 95 West Fifty-sixth Street
aroused the household Of George A.
Helme and got permission 70 ascend 10
the roof and try the Macy scuttle.
Minutes passed; the two watchers
on the street shiverei 'rith cold 'no
nerves. Patrolman Solomon hdgeted
openly.
Something's happened TO Tom ne
said. like as not one of them has ~'ld
him out with the leather. I'm going
TO swarm up to that window and have
a look"
He pointed 20 French windo" open
ing on balcony over the door Boosted
bv Macy. he clambered up the stone
work. smashed the pane with his heel
and cautiously backed his way through
the broken glass. Several minutes
later he poked his head out.
Climbs Into His Home.
"Say." came stentorIan whisper 20
Macv. "T've parked my sins or every
chair in the place but ! cant hnd tne
electric light witch. You'll have TO
come up"
The young man promptly peeled OF
his overcoat and dinner coat and car
fled his cleaning shirt bosom IN the
climb up the face Of his home. Lyman
who had found the scuttle securely
locked. appeared about that time ana
was admitted by the front door.
The house was searched from cellar
"a roof. Not a human being was to
be found. Even the caretaker's room
was empty. Whenever the searchers
paused for moment on whatever
foor they happened TO be. strange
sounds came to their ears. Mutfed
knocks and stiAed screams seemed TO
float with them from room TO room.
These seemed to be clearest near
the elevator shaft, and Lyman put his
ear to the stout oak door on the first
floor.
Assistance Arrives at Last
who's in there" he called sudden
ly. drawing his revolver.
1--WE are" came weak and some
what inadequate reply.
The voice was unmistakably that OF
woman, and Lyman pocketed his re-
volver and snatched fire axe from the
wall. With that the door TO the ele-
vator shaft was demolished. The car
was stuck about eight feet from the
floor. In il was Jennie Traynor. the
csretaker. and two young women
friends, Val Keefe and Mary kirkwood,
whom she had invited to spend the
night with her IL was almost o'clock
and they had entered the elevator at 10.
Their struggles TO start the car ap-
parently had short-circuited the burg
lar alarm.
IL was some time before they were
e0tricated. for the elevator could not
be budged. and Miss Trayncr. who
weighs about two hundred pounds, had
20 Chamber down TO the shoulders OF