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BOY HUNG IN ROOF PEAK FOR SIX HOURS
Companions Left Him in This Predicament and He Was Found Only by Accident
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 1 February 1921]
A lad named Bailey, aged ten years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bailey, corner of Ross and John streets, had a perilous experience on Saturday when he hung suspended by a hay fork rope, from sometime in the forenoon until five o’clock in the afternoon. That he was discovered at 5 o’clock was only an accident. He was on the unoccupied farm of Nelson Young, down the river in Crowland. Mr. Young and his son went over at 5 o’clock for a jag of hay. As they drew near the barn they heard sounds.
“A dog barking,” said Mr. Young.
“Sounds more like a little boy, “said the lad.
The lad was right.
Bailey had been raised to the peak of the barn in the hayfork rope. As he got to the peak the rope twisted, He could not be raised further; his weight was not sufficient to bring him down again.
When found he was crying bitterly and quite numb with the cold.
Mr. Young had some task to get the boy down. There was no ladder about the place long enough to reach him, so a scaffold had to be built across the mow beams, and even, that was not high enough. Twenty-five feet below was the bare, barn floor.
It was some time after his rescue that the boy was able to talk. He said he had gone in the barn in the forenoon with some companions and they had raised him by the rope and pulley. When they found he was stuck fast and could not get up or down they went away and left him. Bailey said he did not know the names of the boys.
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