SAVED FROM ROCKS
BUT DIES OF POISON
STRANGE SUICIDE ON BEACHY HEAD. . \ (United. Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cable Assn.) LONDON, Ist July. Major Debos and his. wife and a. friend were walking at Beachy Head in the middle of tho afternoon, when the friend inquired where was the 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 saw the man move and hang with his legs overhanging the cliff, six inches from a drop of hundreds of feet. \
Major Debos stealthily crept up in order .not to frighten the man. The latter rose up and attempted to throw himself over the cliff, but tho major gripped him1, and after a desperate struggle on.the.brink managed to pull the maii to safety.,
Then fato played the strangest trick. The man who had just been saved from an appalling death on the rocks below suddenly groaned and expired. It turned out that he had poisoned himself. .. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 2, 2 July 1926, Page 7
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170SAVED FROM ROCKS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 2, 2 July 1926, Page 7
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