Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1920 — HIGH HEELS CAUSE DEATH [ARTICLE]

HIGH HEELS CAUSE DEATH

Pittsburgh Woman Mangled by Elevator After Her Shoe Catches in Door. Pittsburgh, Pa.—High heeled shoes dragged Mrs. C. Steffler, aged fortytwo, to a slow death when she was crushed beyond recognition between an elevator cage and the shaft wall in the North Park apartments, No. 204 East North avenue, where she resided. Mrs. Steffler was hurrying through the hall going to the elevator when John Gibson, the elevator operator, informed her that he would carry her up after he had answered a telephone call. As Mrs. Steffler stepped into the waiting car her high heeled shoes caught between the elevator and the floor. In an effort to extricate herself she fell forward, grasping the cable of the cage which started slowly to descend to the basement, pinning her between the steel cage and the walk