Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1910 — TWO LOCKED IN IRON VAULT [ARTICLE]

TWO LOCKED IN IRON VAULT

Man and Girl Owe Lives to Chance Opening of Safe Door. Anderson, Ind., Sept. 2. — Ray Griswold and Miss Irene Smart, employed in the auditing department of the Indiana Union Traction company, had a narrow escape from death by suffocation when the large iron door of the steel vault was inadvertently slammed shut while they were inside. Owing to the thickness of the door their cries could not be heard in the outer office and to the fact that threequarters of an hour later the head clerk had occasion to get some papers out,of the vault, they probably owe their lives. It is not believed that either would have lived a half hour longer in the close confinement