ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE
SENSATIONAL INCIDENT IN SI'SSEX. MAN SUBSEQUENTLY EXPIRES By Tel—Press Assoc.-Copyright. Rec. July 2, 8.5. a.m, London July 1. Major do Bos, his wife and a, friend, were walking at Boacliy Head, iu the middle of the afternoon, when the friend! inquired where there was a spot like Sydney 'Head Gap, from which so many committed suicide. “Just over there,, where that man is sitting,’’ said the Major, who with a start, sa.w the man move, and hang with his legs overhanging the cliff, six indies from a drop of hundreds of feet Major do Bos stealthily crept up, in order not to frighten the man. The latter rose up. and attempted to throw himself over the cJ'iff. Major de Bos gripped him, and after a desperate struggle on the 'brink, managed to pull the man, to safety. Then fate played the strangest trick. The man, who had just lieen saved from an appalling death on the rocks below, suddenly groaned and expired. It turned out that ho had poisoned himself. —(A. and N.Z.)
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9224, 2 July 1926, Page 3
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