Struggle in Mid-air.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 152, 1 July 1904, Page 4

Struggle in Mid-air.

MANIAC AND FIREMAN FIGHT ON WINDOW LEDGE. Hundreds of people watched spellbound a thrilling struggle that took place on April 24j on the window-sill of a hospital in New York in Fortyfirst. street, 75ft above the ground, (between a madman and three llrave firemen. < Tho lunatic was a man named Hindman, who suddenly developed maniacal symptoms in the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital. Seizing a heavy water-jife, he rushed through a crowd of attendants, gained a window, and sprang out upon the stone ledge ibarely a foot wide. Then he closed the winnow behind him, and pulled down the upper sash, thus placing a douible barrier of glass between himself and his pursuers. He repeatedly yelled out that he would brain the first person who came near him. It was finally decided to call up the lire department, and Captain Chirk and Firemen Soatalon and Kilnley cautiously ascended to the window by means of an extension ladder. Unnoticed by the madman, Clark crept behind him and seized him with his right hand by the throat, while with his left he held the edge of the window-sash, Hindman fought savagely. Twice he knocked Captain Clark from his feet, and the brave fireman was only saved from death by his strong grip upon, the window-sash. His companions could render littie help, and a terrible struggle raged for several minutes, but eventually Clark's superior strength prevailed, and the maniac was hurled, -headlong back through the window, where he was soiled by the police, and, in spite of his frantic' strujjgjles, 'bound hand and foot with strips of linen torn from a sheet.