A MAD ACT ON A HOUSE-TOP.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1958, 7 April 1885, Page 2

A MAD ACT ON A HOUSE-TOP.

■ft* One afternoon the inhabitants of Gellatly-stroet, Dundee, were seriously alarmed by tho eccentric behaviour of a •man, apparently a stranger to the locality. His appearance was that of n labourer or a tramp, and naturally at a time like tho present, his movements wore retarded with suspicion. For Borne time ho continued to wander about from door'to door without speaking to anyone. Ho had a bewildered look oirhis face," as if he were . searching'for some 'person'} and whon anyone appeared at the doors where httalled he turned away ..without uttering Sword. About four, o'clock Mrs Anderson, wife of Memiah 1 Anderson, laborer, who resides in the top.flafc of a four-storey tenement at 42, Gellatly-street, was alarmed by observing a strange man in the lobby of her house. Suspecting that he was there with some evil design, she hastily locked her kitclien door.' The man said nothing, and before Mrs Anderson had any idea of his intentions, up a stair which leads from theKss&ge to the attics,' which are used 1 as lumberrooms by the tenants of the landing, Then he made hig way out! to the roof by the skylight, arid slid down the.slstelto.the water-spout at the eaves, and let himself over the front of the house, In this fearful position Mrs Anderson Bawthe man hanging by his "hands'-to the lead, with hia legs dangling in the air in front of the kitchen window, The window looks to the street, and is about 40 feet from the ground. A clothes pole, about tho thickness of a man's arm and about 81 feet long, projects from the windowsill, and on this frail support. the man rested his feet and steadied himself, Mrs Anderson screamed and ran for a neighbor, who returned with her to the house, and tound the man standing in the tre of the kitchen floor, having brpks%o panes of glass in effecting an entrance' by the window, The police were sent for, and the strange intruder was taken.-to the police station. He gave his naine as David Mill, a laborer, and said he* had ■ lately come from Glasgow. As there mp no appearance of intoxication about him, the medical officers were caltelto flwmlna him. When questioned dfiraing; his strange .escapade :He - said 'firM lOme recollection of looking down from a height, but: it iseewedi; tl^t' f it s Tvijj ll io made him go "overithfefoo?b^ Mill was brought the Police Courfyn'a charge, the peace. Ontlie motion he was remanded thajjjjis nteiiits conditibn might be rarther into (■, 'is;'. oUsud faJiam