Source: The Morning Star (Glens Falls, NY), February 16, 1907 HAIR CAUGHT IN SHAFTING; GIRL HAS NARROW ESCAPE Special to The Star Fair Haven, Vt., Feb. 15 - Saved from a horrible death by a fellow employee cutting her hair off. Miss Anna Delehanty, fourteen years old, employed in the United Shirt and Collar company's factory here, is in a critical condition at her home in Hydeville, Vt., with her scalp loosened from her head and the muscles of her neck strained, by her hair catching in a shaft while at her work here this afternoon. She stooped over to pick up a bobbin on the floor when her hair which was a long braid, caught in the shafting of the machinery. She was drawn well onto the shaft, her hair winding round and round when someone shut the power off. Someone else through a mistake, turned it on again, pulling her head onto the shaft. A fellow employee acted with presence of mind and cut her hair off, just in time to save her from a horrible death, though she pleaded that her hair be not cut. Transcribed by: Janice B. Edwards, Poultney, Vt