AMAZING-CLIFF RESCUE
WOMAN’S 120 FT. FALL Watched by a crowd of holiday-mak-ers seven men risked their lives a few weeks ago, in saving a woman who marvellously escaped death on the cliffs at Bude, Cornwall. The woman, Miss Long, of Killerton Road, Bude, fell from the cliff top at Compass Point on to a ledge 120 ft. below. Her plight was first discovered by a shepherd, who heard cries from the cliff and then found a woman’s coat on the edge. He went for help, and Dr. J. A. W. Ponton climbed the cliff face to render first-aid until further help came. Clinging to tho cliff face with very insecure footholds, ambulance men and coastguards then raised tho woman to tho top on a stretcher. Miss Long was removed to Bude Cottage Hospital, suffering from many injuries. She was unable to give an account of her fall. But for striking the ledge she would have been dashed on ; t he rocks below.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 280, 26 November 1931, Page 11
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