New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-17
Boy Crushed to
Death While at
in Elevator
Anthony Ackowitz, IL, Is
Caught Between Car and
Wall of Shaft; Police Free
Body After Two Hours
Fire Department Called
RestOratives Given to Victim
While Workers Attempt
to Release Him; He Dies

T-elve-year-old Anthony Aekowitz
was crushed 70 death yesterday after
noon by a baggage elevator in the New
York Central Railroad station At Hast
ings-on- -Hudon on which he had been
playing. Firemen from Hastings-on-
Hudson and policemen from Yonkers,
skilled in the mechanism OF elevators,
worked for two hours 10 free the boy.
There are automatic gates on the
baggage elevator shaft which close only
when tho elevator IS A. another level,
so as 20 prevent persons from falling
I into the shaft.
How Anthony reached the elevator
unobserved Is no: known. nor how long
he had been operating it. The atten-
tion OF David MeManus was attracted
by The boys scream as the elevator
jammcd him against the wall Of the
shaft.
Assisted By passengers who we're
waiting for a train, McManus tried 70
extricate the boy. They found IL be-
yond their power. Any further move
ment Of the car IN either direction
would have crushed him even more
severely.
McManus turned IN FIRE alarm,
which attracted a large crowd TO the
station. The hremen sought 20 pry
the elevator away from the wall with
their hooks and erowbars, being afraid
TO use their axes, but found they could
not release him. An ambulance was
called from Dobbs Ferry HOSPITAL, aad
the doctor who came with 1t admins
tered restoratives 10 the boy while the
6remen attempted 70 release him.
Yonkers Policemen Called
Then it was suggested, although the
Otis elevator plant az Yonkers, four
miles AWAY. was closed, there were
polieemcn on the lonkers force who
formerly had worked in 10 and that
some one there might be able 20 re-
lease the boy.
A message 20 the station brought
Patrolman William Thomas, formerly
q mechanic In the Otis plant. and other
policemen with an oxy-acetylcne torch.
with the aid Of the torch they man
aged % cut Anthony free after he had
been imprisoned for about two hours.
He was dead when they got him out
Another Boy Injured
Leon Brozman. sixteen years old, Of
1910 Seventh Avenue, felt that his tie
needed strengthening yesterday after
noon and also that his hair could stand
fixing. He went into an apartment
house at 300 West 18TH Street TO use
the mirror in the elevator. Ten min
SITES later an ambulance took him TO
Harlem Hospital, cut, bleeding and
with a possible fracture Of the skull.
lie Rad told the elevator boy, James
Wallace, o negro. what he wanted, and
Wallace, who knew him, did not inter
fere.
Brennan had rearranged his tie and
smoothcd his hair when Betty Bayer,
the fve-year-old daughter Of Mrs. Mar
earet Baycr on the fourth floor, came
down stairs, got in the elevator and
moved the operating lever. BToZnan
tried 70 get out, slipped, and fell half
in and half out of the elevator.
Wallace, hearing the elevator IN mo-
tlon. ran back into the hall and saw
the danger. He jumped for the rising
elevator and wriggled himself inside.
With q quick effort he was abie 20
grasp the lever and check the upward
motion OF the car.
Brozman's body slipped over the
edge and ffll down the shaft 10 the
basement. The police were summoned
and he was taken 20 the hospital, where
n was said his condition was serious.