The New York herald., 1921-05-28
CLOSET LOCK TRAPS
CHILDREN 90 HOURS
Paterson Youngsters Nearly
SuffOcated in Long Game
Of Hide and Seek.
LOLLYPOP SAVES LIVES
Search by Police, Neighbors
and Dogs Just Missed
Nearby Retreat.
LOLLYPOP SAVES LIVES

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sucker-lemon flavor-which had been
Harry Faber's most cherished possess
sion for several days, it is quite likely
that Harry and Bella Weiner, who is
years old and years younger than
Harry, would not be eating their milk
and cereal this morning like otner
children. Instead, they probably would
be lying dead in the gloomy depths OF
q clothes closet in a vacant apartment
in Paterson, n. j., where they were
| imprisoned from 4 o'clock last Monday
until ! o'clock yesterday afternoon
two very frightened children sustained
somewhat by the omnipotent lollypop.
| Harry Faber lives in 122 River
street. Paterson. and Bella lives in 5
Tyler street. Across from Bella s
home and around the corner from the
house in which Harry lives is two
story house at IA Tyler street. The
lower floor is occupied by the family
Of Bella's cousin, Samuel Miller while
the upper one is vacant. But this va
can. apartment has a great many
closets and corners and places that are
ideal to hide when children are play
| ing hide and seek and want to sustain
their regulations as mystiflers. So
that is where the children of the
neighborhood play their games, and
that is where Harry and Bella and
half a dozen other children went last
Monday afternoon.
! They played hide and seek all after
noon. and finally started the last round.
Ethel Beilinofsiy, who is only years
old. was .'it," and Bella and Harry
went away TO hide together, being great
friends. perhaps because Bella knew
that Harry had his pet lollypop. They
found a magnifcently deep closet in
bedroom, and went inside and huddled
In a corner, leaving the door ajar
.Tt" Promptly slams the Door.
| Neither of them knew that cheap
catch, the sort that sells for dime
was on the outside OF the door, and
neither did Ethel Beilinofsky know it.
But when Ethel went racing through
the rooms the door OF the closet got
in her way. and she promptly slammed
| It shut. The catch fastened.
| Harry and Bella didn't care much for
the sudden darkness into which they
| were plunged. There were a few faint
streaks Of light coming in because the
coor didn't fit square into the frame
| But they became frightened, and Harry
tried TO opcr the door. He couldn't
| Then Bella tried. and she couldn't. and
they both tried. but they couldn't bulge
the catch. Then they shouted and
banged on the door as hard as they
could. but all the answer they received
was the echo OF their own shouts and
| the noise CT their own banging The
other children had gone home and they
were alone In the apartment, locked in
a closet. with nothing to eat or drink
IL was some hours after that when
Bella had cried herself to sleep and the
world had grown dark. that Harry
| thought of his lollypop. There wasn't
| much of Il, but what there was he
sucked on gratefully. and then awoke
Bella. who had her share Of the all day
sucker and then went back to sleep, be-
cause Bella was very frightened little
girl
That was their programme all day
| Tuesday, and all day Wednesday and
! Thursday. They knew when night came.
/ because then IL was very dark. and they
knew when morning came, because then
! they could hear the mill whistles and the
noises In the streets. They hammered
on the door and shouted as often as they
| had the strength. and then. worn out
| and very frightened, they sank back on
| the floor and went TO sleep. II was
during these hours of terrible darkness.
when awful things came from the corner
/ OF the closet and tried TO grab them.
| that the loilypop helped. A loliypop al
J ways helps.
Nothing to Eat or Drink.
! But nobody came to open the door for
\ them. They got hungry and very
thirsty but they had nothing to eat and
| nothing to drink. Bella cried most of
/ the time, and Harry comforted her ell
| he could although he felt very much
! like crying himself But for ninety-six
hours they had no food or drink but the
faithful lemon lollypop that Harry had
had In HE pocket. and while they
| hungercd and thirsted and saw the bogy
man in the corners and cried with
/ fright. their parents and their friends
\ and the police of half a dozen New
| Jersey cities searched for them In vain.
The Passaic River was dragged. police
| dogs trailed them 70 a coal yard where
\ they had played the day before. but no
trace could be found OF the two chill
| dren who were slowly dying OF thirst
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