SYDNEY BRIDGE INCIDENT.
SYDNEY, January 2. A man who had climbed over the supposedly impassable safety barrier protecting the footway of the Sydney Harbour Bridge was seized and held by a pedestrian as he was crouching on the top of the barrier, preparing to leap to the water. The safety barrier has been an effective check to intending suicides for nearly nine months. The man was seen to climb the trellis work on the eastern side of the bridge, twist, and swing himself' over the curved top, apparently heedless of the barbed wire, which has been placed to prevent such madness. A man who was using the footway grasped the other firmly by the ankles. A tramguard and several bridge workers came to his assistance, and the man was taken to the Reception House by Constable Drew, of the Bridge police.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20509, 10 January 1935, Page 1
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