Daily Kennebec Journal

IDIOTIC BRODIE
Ives Graham's Example and Goes Over
Niagara Falls.
He is Promptly Arrested by the Ontario
Police
for Suicide.
Niagara Falls, Sept. 7.
Steve Brodie today went
over
Niagara
Falls in a rubber suit.
Going to a point 200 feet above the falls,
he stripped and had his body padded with
cotton batting, put on a rubber suit, which
inflated 52 inches around
the waist and 75
inches around the chest.
The head gear
was also inflated, while two steel bands pro-
tected the body.
Brodie with a paddle entered
the water.
He caught the current, waved the paddle
to his friends and a few seconds later shot
over the centre of Horseshoe Falls, and
luckily shot with lightning rapidity over the
outside of one of the falling volumes of
water and
was
quickly lost in the
mist and
foam.
Buried from view nearly two minutes when
a black speck
covered
with
thick white
coating was seen bobbing
and
jumping to
and fro in the water.
In short time Brodie was caught in the
rushing waters and carried at a brisk pace
toward the American shore and then all of a
sudden buried toward the Canadian shore
where men with ropes drew him ashore.
He was quickly stripped, and brandy
poured in small quantities on the temples
while he was rubbed and chafed, but he was
insensible and blood oozed from his mouth.
nose and ears probably from
the shock of
concussions.
For twenty minutes Brodie lay until
ammonia was applied to his nostrils and he
began to shiver and gesticulate with his
hands. Brodie's injuries are many bruises
and a sprained back and ankles.
Brodie Arrested.
Chief McDougal of the Ontario police ar-
rested Brodie at the Grand Trunk station
this afternoon as he was about to take the
4 P. M. train for New York. He is charged
with attempting suicide by going over the
falls this morning.