THRILL FOR CROWD
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy rigli t) NEW YORK, 16th December. A retired merchant aged 67 years, stood for an hour on an eight-inch ledge at the lop of an eighteen-storey building resisting an unexplainable impulse to jump. Two thousand watched horrified in the street below. Police and firemen were helpless until the man accepted an offer of a cigarette and he was overpowered when he returned to the roof to get ; t.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 17 December 1936, Page 7
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76THRILL FOR CROWD Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 17 December 1936, Page 7
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