A DARING LEAP.

Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 148, 6 November 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

A DARING LEAP.

Now York, 14th September.— The J Tribune's Philadelphia special of 1 3th September says : Professor j Leroux leaped from the Arch-street , Museum at 12.30 o'clock to-day to the street, a distance of 150 feet, j He is 30 years old, five feet ten ' inches high and of athletic build. l He was dressed in blue tights and had on a pair of common laced shoes. He achieved considerable reputation ' as a jumper from balloons, having ' made about thirty such leaps, and ' having jumped from High Bridge in ' New York, aud also from the bridge in Paterson, New Jersey. He was J aided in his feat to-day by a para- ! 1 chute- like apparatus attached to a 1

) j wire leading across the street. 11 j " J seized a hook at the bottom of tl- 3 ,' parachute and was carried by it ove r -j the Bpot where the jumper desire 1 to drop. He let go the rope, and in.- . mediately he and the parachute she ; , downwards like a cannon ball if.; \ thirty feet, when the parachute filb I and the speed was slackened, u-. strong wind blew him over iuto th--ciowa, in the midst of which h ¦ descended with a rush. The peopl • in the immediate vicinity tried t , open a space, but the pressure wouli' not let them, and Leroux struck n 1 boy with his knee, which toppled s him over and caused him to strib i his head against another of th< crowd, cutting a gash in his forehead , just over the left eye, from whicl'. the blood flowed freely. Otherwise the leap was a complete success. H< declared he was not hurt, and started for New York to fill hi.' engagements.