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Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Wiley Smith Traped in Refrigerator Room, July 26, 1922

Salesman Trapped in Refrigerator Room

Kinston, July 25—Wiley Smith, an ice cream salesman, suffered from a bad cold today, the only ill effect of Smith’s imprisonment in a refrigerator room at the plant where he is employed. Smith entered the room, where the temperature was 14 below zero, and shut the door behind him. A harmless looking little pin fell out of the fastening mechanism on the outside and Smith found himself trapped. The fright that ensued with the worst he had ever known. Smith, it seemed to him, was in the place “a very long time.” As a matter of fact he was a captive only 20 minutes. Darkness and the frigid temperature quickly “got his goat.” Smith shouted lustily. A workman heard his shouts and released him.

From the Raleigh News & Observer, July 26, 1922

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