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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 154, 16 November 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

11l tin; presence of thousands (if s| tators a man named liuettner commit snicido in .Berlin on Sniuhiy morn September 22. lie liiitl entered inh contract with a group of lihn compni to jiunp from the top of the fain column of Victory in the Ticrlgnrl The structure is two hundred anil li four feet high, and is composed parfii of cannon captured in (jennsiiiy's w It seems that the police had knowle that BuoUner attempted suicide in < neetion with a love ad'air a. forlni earlier, lmt they had no knowledge 1 his project on Sunday was nnderfii with a view of killing himself, film companies also were unaware Buettner's real intentions. Equipped v a faulty parachute he jumped from top of the column, which visitors re by a spiral staircase inside, and plun to the stone base surrounding the roll at great speed, being instantly kil The crowd was incensed at what I thought lo he the complicity of the operators, and handled them and I cameras roughly.