(erielack) 50 years ago on the Erie Lackawanna

[Todd Hollritt <thollritt_@_yahoo.com>]

1962: Suitable for framing: "A watch in the breastpocket of a railroad brakeman stopped a bullet 10 minutes after another bullet barely missed another man working in a clothing plant at Washington. The brakeman, Richard Ike, Port Morris, was aboard an Erie-Lackawanna train when he felt something hit him in the chest. He reached into the breastpocket on the bib of his overalls and pulled out the remains of his watch. A spent .22 caliber bullet fell to the floor of the train. Michael Hess, Miller Avenue, Washington, said a bullet whizzed through the window of the Phil Springer Co., clothing manufacturers, and just missed him. Harry Apgar, Washington police chief, went to the factory. There he lined up the bullet hole in the window pointing to a building several blocks away." At that building, an apartment on East Washington Avenue, police arrested a 15-year-old boy. "The youth told the officers he had been shooting at pigeons with a .22 caliber rifle. Ike
 told police that he planned to frame the watch that protected his chest from the bullet. He said he spends time every day reading the Bible and 'now I know it pays off.'"
 
Todd ~


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