Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1901 — Prisoner in an Old Well. [ARTICLE]

Prisoner in an Old Well.

For three days and nights the cold, stone lining of an abandoned well served as a prison for Michael Stepanik, a farm hand employed by John Owens of New York Mills, N. Y. Stepanik went out to search for missing cattle, and in going through a woodland stepped on what seemed to be a heap of brush. He was at once precipitated into a deep well, in which the water reached his thighs. For three days he suffered great agony, the pangs of hunger ading to the discomfort of the dark, wet cell. His efforts to reach liberty were futile. A small boy hunting in the woods heard the man’s faint cries and summoned aid, and Stepanik was released.