RESULTS OF A PRACTICAL JOKE.
The New Orleans “ Picayune ” gives a serious warning to practical jokers. At 2 o’clock on a recent morning a
gentleman left his dab in that city with I a friend, and, the latter returning for his cane, the former concealed himself in the bottom of the big bos that holds the balancing weight of the elevator; and is called a “ lift case." The friend came back and went away disgusted at finding no trace of the jolly joker. The latter, as he entered the lift case, had closed the door. He tried to open it, but could not, for it opened with a key from the outside. He laughed heartily to seethe biter bit, until pre sently he heard a noise, which be could not misinterpret. The lift was slowly falling down from the fourth floor. He in groping for the door, had pulled the rope which set it free. Death stared him in the face, for that immense mass of iron would inevitably crush him as fiat as a pancake, and by a slow torture that would make dying seem an agony of borrows. He become frantic with fear. He flung himself against the door of the lif tease as only despair could do; he shrieked for help. His shrieks were heard by the janitor who found him in a swoon, and dragged him out when the lift was only fifteen feet off, A physician was summoned- Consciousness was restored; The unfortunate gentleman sprang to hisjfeet, screaming incoherently with wild gestures. He was-crazy.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2747, 12 January 1882, Page 2
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259RESULTS OF A PRACTICAL JOKE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2747, 12 January 1882, Page 2
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