Changed Her Mind About Committing Suicide
WOMAN’S PREDICAMENT ON APARTMENT ROOP. New York Times Broadcast. VICTORIA, 8.C., April 39. It’s a woman’s privilege to change her mind, but when an elderly Victoria matron decided not to commit suicide just as she jumped from a tall downtown apartment building here to-day, several hundred passers-by were treated to heart-stopping thrills. Those in the street saw her lean from the roof and start her leap. They gasped. ’Ahen the woman turned in mid-air and grasped desperately for the cornice of the building. Gasps continued. The woman’s grip on the cornice was good, but her struggles to regain the roof were fruitless.
Firemen raced to the building but power wires prevented them from reaching her with ladders. The woman had dangled for five minutes when two firemen reached the roof. One grasped the other’s legs and the lowered man seized the woman’s wrists just as one of her hands slipped from the cornice. She was pulled to safety.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6839, 21 April 1932, Page 7
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