A MARVELLOUS ESCAPE. A World be Suicide's Adventure. A Jump of 60 Feet and Uninjured.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 201, 30 April 1887, Page 12

A MARVELLOUS ESCAPE. A World be Suicide's Adventure. A Jump of 60 Feet and Uninjured.

toENtfLY fo) loiidoa William Smeaton, 59, described as a* plumper, was charged with attempting, to' eomwat suicide. Policeconstable Yon Berg deposed that he was informed that a> man was about to throw himself from the parapet of the Crown Tavern, in H«ldon-street, Regent-street. He ran up the roof, when the prisoner rusLM by him, climbed over the parapet, and after holding, on with his hands for a few seconds, dropped to the ground, a distance sf sixty feet;- In the course of his fall he' passed through a' skylight and a wooden partition, a*d-eventuaily " landed " in a tub m the baseraent used for cleaning the pots.- Witness ran down tbe stairs, and found thsrman in » sitting posture, and apparently but little the worse fosrhis fall.

The Spaufdintf Plum, — Another noveltymentioned in the Ameiiean papera is the Sp&ulding f*infiti, one of The chief merits claimed for it being that ifc is Curculzo- proof. Its protection against this insect pest is said to ronsis^in its thick sicin. Thssplum we are told is closely related to the Uieen Gage, and it i.xjlaiined to be very productive, and a remarkable- gro\ver r with leather}', large leaves. It ripens it* fruit in late August (February in New Zealand).