Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1913 — Human Wedge Between Two Houses Is Chopped Out [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Human Wedge Between Two Houses Is Chopped Out

CLEVELAND, O.—Nine firemen, a police sergeant and a patrolman worked an hour to pull the head of John Foley, Worcester, Mass., from between two houses at 2430 and 2436* Franklin avenue early the other morning. They had to chop holes In the sides of the houses, finally, before they could get him out. He was wedged upside down, most uncomfortably, for an hour because he tried to get Into the house at 2430 Franklin avenue without awakening other boarders. ’ Foley, returning from downtown at 1 a. m., walked stealthily up the long flight of outside steps. He had reached the top when hiß balance gave way. Appetite over head, he dropped down the siderail. He only fell a little way when his head and

shoulders stuck because the houses slope to a foot apart. Foley wiggled for quite a time In silence. He did not care to discommode persons in the neighborhood. Finally he yelled. Sergeant Howlett and Patrolman Smith of the West Twenty-ninth street station, were strolling on West Twenty-fifth street when they heard the screams. “ ’Tis a murder,” Smith said, starting to run. “If he were killed he couldn’t make that much noise,” Howlett gasped. They were sure something was wrong when they saw a pair of athletic legs waving over the banister. Smith took one leg and Howlett the other. They tugged. The houses would not give an inch and Foley told the neighborhood the police were killing him. Howlett sent for the hook and ladder company that Is stationed at Ghurch avenue and West Twentyninth street. The firemen were about to put a mechanical jack under Foley’s crown and try to force him upward when he begged them to desist. Finally, they cut a neat hole out of each of the houses and Foley, with a groan of relief, turned right side up.