HORRIBLE DEATH.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1028, 9 November 1882, Page 3

HORRIBLE DEATH.

A dreadful incident occurred at Mcs.-r e Spottiswoode’s, printers, near Gough square, London. Two boys were in the lift of a hydraulic which takes the paper to the different floors of Messrs Spottiswoode’s warehouse. It is stated that neither of the lads had anv business in it. Hie hft was put in motion from the first floor, and as it was turns past the second floor, William Wilcox, aged 16, residing at, 26 Wicketeley grove, Lavender hill, nut bis head over the side of (he lift to ‘chaff’ and talk to a girl employed in the warehouse. While he was looking over the lift with him in it was still rising, and his head struck against o. cross-beam. The brim bore his head downwards, and his neck became jammed between the beam and the side of the lift, finch was the force that while his head was firmly held his legs were sent straight up in the air. He gave a dreadful shriek, and the screams of the other boy culled the attention of a number of work people to one of t m mb?t shocking accilen's tb.-y had ever t < n. While the the lad was in this position two assistant engineers named f ibley and Bigncll obtained two crow oai'!>,aud b reed the lift from the beam against which the lad was wedged. His head was severed from his body, and blood was dropoing rapidly on the floor. As soon as the men had” shifted the lift, the body fell to the ground, and almost simultaneously the chain of the lift slackened out, and precipitated the lift to the ground below. As it fell to the ground the two assistant engineers, Messr Sibley and Bigneli, who were in it, received terrible injuries on their heads. The two in jured men were conveyed to St. Bartholomew’s hospital.