The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-14

Ed iSat threw away a cigar. and, leaping upon the parapet wall. dived headlons into the current. few feet back from the brink of the American Fall. He was Charles Campion of Buffalo. 24~years old. who had no trouble. so far as his friends knew.
 A suicide was announced in the after noon of July 13. 1891. There were hun dreds of witnesses. A woman fell fainting in the park and was carried into the superintendent's ofice, con- vinced her husband had been swept over the falls. He had disappeared in the bushes and had not returned.
 Then door opened. In walked a man who marched up to the weeping woman. He laid his hand on her shoul- der She raised her head. Their eyes met. She leaped to her feet.
 "Oh. papa, Is 1t your she cried.
 What are you making such a fool of yourself for?' he asked.
 Everybody laughed. Then the ques- tion was, Had there been a suicide?
 Parties visited the falls the next day looking for a MT. sherman of Clifton Springs. A body was seen In the whirl- pool. Time after time it was carried about the river pocket until the watch CTS could stand 1t no longer.
 A friend of the missing man volun- teered to swim out and capture the hu- man form. He seized it, and after a struggle succeeded in landing it.
 The body was not that of the man they sought. but of Frederick Udell of Niagara Falls, who had been missing since July {, while the date of the res- cue was July 15. Udell was thought to be in Maryland. His pockets were in- side out, and 1t was suspected that he had been thrown from the upper sus- pension bridge. Sherman's body was found in the whirlpool July 20.
 Left a Despondent Verne.
 Niagara was startled September 10, 1891, by a double suicide, but the incl dents had no relation to each other. Walter Haywood of Buffalo leaped into the river from Luna Island. while Mrs. Bessie Luders of New York, entered the river from Prospect Park. Haywood was financially unfortunate. He left this verse:
 Here poor, unfortunate Haywood lies: Nobody laughs. nobody cries;
 Where he's gone and how he fares Nobody knows and nobody cares.
 In her trip to eternity Mrs. Bessie Louders had helping hand outstretch- ed to her at the brink of the falls, the incident being one of the most tragic ever known at Niagara.
 R. I. Helm of Philadelphia saw the woman come down the river. Without thought of the danger he climbed over the wall and waded out six feet to a point only ten feet from the bank or the American Fall.
 Three times did he grab her clothing. but as many times did she pull away. She was swept over the brink. It was with difficulty that Helm regained the shore.
 Clerks in the postoffice and express offices occasionally have strange expe- riences with persons bent on suicide. In 1891 a man called at the American Express office and sent his watch and money to Louisville. The agent sus- pected the man and the police arrested him. He admitted he was bent on go- ing over the falls.
 The body of woman found floating in the lower river May 16, 1892. was Identified as Miss Emma c. Aupperle of Philadelphia. Her friends said that once while chatting she said:
 If I ever commit suicide I will go to Niagara. I selected the spot two years ago when I was there"
 Tt Is all for that woman" wrote Noble Kenny of Buffalo before he went to his death from Prospect Point.
 Tt Is home trouble" called f5-year- old Ethel Lynman to Policeman Burch, as she was wading out In the river at Luna Island. The officer caught her.
 Jennie Newell threw herself into the riverN May 2s, 1893. but was rescued.
 Don't pull me out, boys; let me go" she cried.
 Few Niagara suicides created such a sensation as that of Peter Schemm, a Philadelphia brewer. September 13. 1898. He had driven about the reserva- ton and on the return from Goat Is- land deliberately leaped from the bridge into the rapids.
 A reward of s1.000 was offered for the recovery of his body. The lower river was watched as never before. It as surprising the number of bodies found. but none was identified as that of Schemm.
 Hippolyte Schneider a Frenchman, added novelty to the manner of dying at Niagara. He walked out on a reef above Goat Island bridge March 30. 1900. and fired hts revolver in the air. Twice the report rang out, as if to attract attention, and then he was seen to place the pistol In his mouth. There was a report, and the man tumbled into the water and was swept away over the falls. He was infatuated with Lillian Russell and for her had died.