A PLUNGE INTO NIAGARA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 220, 8 November 1880, Page 4

A PLUNGE INTO NIAGARA.

Niagara Falls are noted for what might be called appalling suicides, but probably one of tbe most awful was the deliberate jump into tbe foaming rapids, made lost night by George "W. Knapp, a resident of Utica, N. Y. There was such a sane methodical deliberateness about it as to render it simply terrible. Knapp came here on the train from Buffalo in tbe afternoon and went directly to the telegraph office, where he sent a business inr-ssnge to Utifßt He then went to the International Hotel, where he took supper. How he passed his time until Dine o'clock no one knows. At that hour C.C. Mesner and Miss Florence M. Evart, a resident of Fort Erie, Canada, opposite Buffalo, were looking at the cataract from Prospect Park and started to go to Goat Island. The young man, who resides here, saw a young lady friend in a bazaar just at the bridge and went to talk to her. Meanwhile Miss Evart sat down upon a seat running along a balcony over the ropirls, about seventyfive rods from the precipice. Just then Knapp came along, sat down near her, and seemed to be buried in profound thought. Five minutes later he went to the further corner of the balcony and sat down. He pulled out a d:ary and hastily scribbling a note pinned it inside of his coat, which he next removed with , his vest, and deliberately piled them with his hat and cuffs, in a neat manner on the seat. The young lady, who was the only witness of all this, eoneid- j ered it nothing remarkable, as the night w£s warm. A moment later she was terrified, for Knapp mounted the rail^ ing, drawing a revolver at the same movement. He stood a second, threw up his hands, discharging tbe pistol and plunged into the tumbling billows. Miss Evart's shriek and the pistol shot soon brought a crowd. Nothing could be seen of the body, which must have shot over the precipice in the foaming current like an arrow from a bow. Chief of Police Baily was soon on hand and took, possession of the man's effects. The articles already mentioned con tamed. a handsome gold hunting case watch memorandum book, eyeglases, match safes and other articles. The check to a key ring read GK W. Knapp, No. 10, Cooper-street, XTtica. The note fastened to the coat was found to be as follows : — " Pleaae express these to E. F. Damey, No, 29, John-street, Utica," and was Bigned in a clear, legible marmot and presumably never will be found. — New York Herald, September