STRANGE TRICK OF FATE
STRUGGLE ON CLIFF’S BRINK. LONDON, July 1 While Major Debos with hit wife and a friend were walking at Beachy Head in the middle of the afternoon the friend inquired where there waa a spot like The Uad, at Sydney He..ds, from which so many persons had committed suicide. "Just over there where that man is sitting,’’ said the major, who saw, with a start, the man move and hang with his legs over the cliff, six inches from a drop of hundreds of feet. Major Debos stealthily crept up in order not to frighten tho man. The latter rose up and attempted to throw himself over the cliff, but Major Debos gripped him, and after a desperate struggle on the brink managed to pull him to safety. Then fate played the strangest trick. The man who had just been saved from an appalling death on the rocks below suddenly gasped and expired. It turned out that he had poisoned himself.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 31
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