A Terrible Leap.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 64, 14 August 1885, Page 3

A Terrible Leap.

The Bristol Times and Mirror of May, 9 lias the following :[ — A woman lea|i«uj from the CliJ'tpn Suspension Bridge yesterday .afternoon, but, Mfcfauge to say, did not meet wi',h her death. I'he occurrence took' place at j ; ivtidut halt; 'past twelve o'clock:, at I ; Avirich „>he was seen, l»y sevViV' persons to tall from the buidge to tlie mud «m | the .-Clifton sida of the rivei\ near the water; which was then r<? ceding and half tide, ; Jo^ri; Williams, of Aahtun Gutej ; and George > Drew. I who ,were : h^ar, at 1 once went to her aiil, brought her to the hank, ami took lier into tlie refreshment room «it the Avpiimiiuth Railway bookirigl office. Extniovdinary to relate, tlie . woman was alive and cnn*ciou.«. Slit} i »ili|iij.tJt> feply to cjiiestioii|3 put ;, t«» . ■Jhir,r-fWtt;tj tfiiaC Jiov liiiiiie wa* Sarah ;,'4.>in'ilWii]ey J ;tlißy)eVa'^e : wa^..'( :^ettty-.. I two, si ml - jthatj she- lived '■ at ..N^ . 30, : ;TwiriWftl^rpft<J, St; Phillijis. ; Uh\ ririffitlvß, of Gordon- road, Glifum,' who Was passing, examined the WohiWiV and sidviaed Iht iminetli «te Toinoval to the iiih'nnaryj whither l«ow-^ ever, she ; was not iinuiedtately removed; pwiijjj, this is saiil, to the slifimefiil coiidnct of a V; "c>ii>niJi«V lit" liviiijr near, was rcquvaWil l>y ., lintecti \ e Robertson to faike th e ; womn n ' tp'f • ■•'•c miry; ••nt^-silthouyh iwyinent w; ( s offi'if 1 — heo!»jec^ed,heciiuße *he would nmko his vehicle , dirty. Rpljertscm remonatiated, and said he would put a sheet around her, .which , would keep . the mud from the'ciii», and added that, no dpnlit i<he was dyinsr; "T don't care," the cubiii«u is vej/oited to s.iid, ". let her die.'! ■ - Mi»n ,h:»dj, tbcrfifl ye; tip :iie ; .seiit to the j.UJJitwr.^ipjice^'^tati'Hi-r^tO'^'in'Qcuro^'-a-A s^i etcher, upon which slip was moyed ' ; totheinstitction'h*umed^';l)iitjV7t ; 'bsfp^e;'' l nearly nn hour \i\u\ -e!Hps«ed. .Tloach'. ing the |nfi | TOary v- »he''-Hv%^tamiti*».d lit l^e'casMalty^ciij^liy |npi<lil staff^ afof J^i^t^iiN^d| § ; «1^ wards. * Her conditions were fouud to be critical, for liexjdesToctfivJnj?-; » v shpek-tp .. the, .system *. _Mg^ j^?^t»fjw;l; injuiiitsi •-.^y%4 : ? prnt«i'»nity" ' is stliaf-cihjß ,wiJJ^tti*miib> ««^iHite^#f possibility^- that jshe - iuar*. recover,; of th» woman ooinmittinfj the act w^-*