FRIGHTFUL FALL OF THE FEMALE BLONDIN AT BOLTON.

Wanganui Herald, Volume III, Issue 656, 18 September 1869, Page 2

FRIGHTFUL FALL OF THE FEMALE BLONDIN AT BOLTON.

Recently an intensely exciting scene was witnessed at Bolton. In connection with Mr Pablo Fanque's circus, the Female Blondin had been announced for an outdoor performance. She was to walk along a rope fixed

irom the third story of the' Old CorJ^H nation Mills to the top of the circu^^ the height of the rope being about sixty feet, and! the distance some eighty feet About 'half-past 7 the lemale Blondin entered the coronation Mills, which are being pulled down, and ascended the rope ' She sauntered along it for a few feet with a light andeasy step, but at about fifteen feet from where,she started was a large ugly knot on the rope several inches long. She essayed to ' cross it, and then returned back In a moment however, she resumed her perilous journey, amid 6he breathless anxiety of thousands who' stood sixty feet beneath her. . She approached the,knot cautiously, crossed it, but J? f h? r i leaving it she stumbled. At once she th?ew h^ P°k to the ciwd below, and * a desperate effort she grasped the rope. She is a strbng^scular and exerted herself to regain , a P^^ pn,the but^ungLspended by the hands. The wildest excitement; prevailed amongst the spectators There were loud cries of Lower the rope," which 'done, but only for a very few feet With more speed than it can be told, a great number of menmassed together at the place over which she hun£ by the rope and begged herto let goand tail, bhedid so, and was caught by ' them ; and although the distance she - ' fell was almost fifty feet, :she sustained no injury beyond the fright and a shake. A more painfully excitine scene it is impossible to describe.