CRAWL OVER NIAGARA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 365, 28 May 1928, Page 7

CRAWL OVER NIAGARA

GIRL RISKS LIFE TO ENTER U.S. LONG CLIMB IN THE DARK A 17-year-old Lithuanian girl has told American officers, who arrested j her for trying- to enter the United States without the needed papers, that she had risked her life to do so. She said she had crossed the roaring- Niagara gorge by crawling along the semi-circular webwork of girders supporting the lower steel work of the j bridge. She had been a dressmaker in Montreal. Late at night, dressed in boyish j clothes, she met a man who had ar- j ranged for the crossing. He fastened a rope around her waist and lowered her scores of feet over the side of the gorge to the lower abutments of the bridge. Here she was joined by her helper. The two crawled along the girders which, rising in an arc from both sides of the river, culminate at a point 250 feet above tbe waters. The night was dark. A slip at any point along the 550 ft. span would | have meant a plunge to instant death, j She says, however, that she had I little fear. She was arrested with four other ! young women, who were found with her in a cellar. The others say they were taken across the river at another point in a : row-boat.