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Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1921, Page 3

FIGHT WITH MADMAN. NEW YOU Is, An". 21 In tlie* presence of thousands of people, including the crews ot steamships and tugboats in the harhoiir, two New York policemen yesterday rescued a madman who was trying to throw himself from the top of one of the towers of the great Williamsburg Bridge, which joins New Mirk City to Long Island, over the Fast Diver. The towers from which the cables <■! the suspension bridge hang are doOft high. . The man, a young Hungarian, wno climbed the tower by an iron ladder used for inspection purposes, was seen on the narrow platform at the top, wildlv waving his arms. Two traffic policemen immediately left their posts and went np the tower. In a few minutes they closed with the madman, and the three men struggled and swaved on the tiny platform tn mid-air. Failing to subdue the Hungarian, one policeman knocked him senseless with a blow from m* truncheon. , The two officers then laced the most hazardous part of their task that o getting the man down. The hist HUH of the tower has two ladders a few feet apart Down these the constables car"ried the unconscious man. One held his a nkles and the other his wrists, the body swinging between them. Holding on with then free hand .mil buffeted bv a high wind the policemen slowlv made their way down to sa oty. \s tit*?V set foot on the upper roadway a great burs.t of cheering came Horn 'thousands of spectators and the dm was swelled bv the sirens of steamers and tugboats oil the river and by dozens of motor horns.

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