A Big Jump

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 15, 16 July 1885, Page 3

A Big Jump

Sarah Henley had better luck than ihe mad Odium, who jumped off Brooklyn Bridge. Sarah is a young woman who quarrelled with her young man, and by way of revenge leaped off Clifton Suspension Bridge. She probably expected to find a grave in the Avon; but the tide being low she alighted in .the soft mud, where ahe would . have been suffocated but for prompt assistance. She was uninjured and conscious, although she had fallen 230 ft; but there was a sharp wind blowing, which buoyed up her clothes and impeded heir descent, thereby saving her life. The girl was forthwith conveyed to the hospital, and her "rash act"- has. exercised a strange effect upon spine of the inhabitants of Bristol. One man called at the hospital, where ahe was detained, .and offered a sovereign to an official, on condition that the latter did hia best to induce the girl to marry the offerer. A local showman appeared to express his wish to enter into a contract to take Sarah round the neighborhood, giving her a preliminary benefit of £100, and a •hare* in the subsequent profits'. Another showman offered her father £500 to allow him to engage her for a year for exhibition.