FATE FLAYS STRANGE TRICK.
MAN SAVED FROM SUICIDE DROP OVER BEACHY HEAD DIES. HAD TAKEN POISON ERE ATTEMPTING LEAP. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, July 1. Major Debos, his wife and a friend were walking on Beachy Head in the middle of the afternoon when the friend inquired where there was a spot like the 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 attemped to throw himself over the cliff. Major Debos gripped him and after a desperate struggle on the brink managed to pull the man to safety. Then fate 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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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17888, 2 July 1926, Page 15
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