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The Bennington Evening Banner
Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont
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At Niagara Falls, N.Y., on June 6, a 29-year-old man named Amos Switzer attempted suicide by entering the Niagara River 100 feet above the brink. He clung to a rock ledge 10 feet from the edge. Patrolman Harry Beetts and Fireman Thomas Conroy rescued him using a 35-foot ladder extended into the river, with 20 men securing it.
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Fire Fighter Risked Life to Save Would-Be Suicide,
NIAGARA FALLS. N. Y. June 6—A well dressed man walked into Niagara river 100 feet above the brink of the falls and was swept toward the precipice.
He caught on a ledge of rock ten feet from the brink and clung there. Ropes were thrown to him, which he refused to grasp.
A fire department truck was called out and a ladder thirty-five feet long shoved out into the river. Twenty men sat on the shore end while Patrolman Harry Beetts walked out on it and Fireman Thomas Conroy walked in the river bed clinging to the ladder. Together they dragged the man to the shore. He was taken to police headquarters. He gave his name as Amos Switzer, but declined to talk further. He is about twenty-nine years of age.
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Niagara Falls, N. Y., Niagara River Above The Brink
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June 6
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A man walked into the Niagara River 100 feet above the falls, intending suicide, and clung to a rock 10 feet from the brink. He refused ropes but was rescued by a patrolman and fireman using a 35-foot ladder secured by 20 men, then taken to police headquarters where he identified as Amos Switzer, age 29, but said no more.