The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-14
NIAGARA SUICIDES.
World Famous Falls Fascinate and
 Lure Many to Death.

ENldsdid T dllS SpeCIdi
 Every year persons end their lives in the rapid-running waters of Mag ara. The record goes far back, and in cludes many strange cases. Ann Hall, 34 years old. committed suicide fifty years ago by going over the waterfall. She was a bride of but a week.
 Each suicide appears to have diff ferent plan. A party of visitors were enjoying the scene from the Third Sis- ter Island on August 10, 1884, when they were startled by a man emerging from the bushes. He was clad only in light underwear. Tossing articles of jewelry to them he leaped into the boiling water close by. He was Her man Wuttke of Buffalo, and his act was due to despondency..
 A young man on the afternoon of February 25, 1885. descended the incline railway, walked out to a mound of whiteness toward the upper suspension bridge which then spanned the gorge, and after stamping down level place on the icy hillock, shot himself.
 He was Charles Weilbacher, second son of Paul weilbacher, of Weilbacher X Loewi, hop merchants, of New York. He was 25 years old. and his fathers bookkeeper. Dependency and insom- mia were the causes.
 There have been suicides by night as well as by day. c. V. Sweet of Jersey City, on August 31, 1885, strolled out from his hotel to enjoy Niagara by moonlight. At Prospect Point he found a mans coat, and papers in the pocket indicated it belonged to Chauncey Hough of Batavia. A week later MT. Hough's body was taken from the whirlpool.
 Because of the number of suicides at Niagara, persons have attempted to mislead the world by pretending to have committed suicide. No case of this kind is more notable than that of Bryan B. Crandall.
 CrandaIPs Bogus Suicide.
 It was on April 1, 1886. that an officer of the State reservation found a hat under an overturned seat back of the Cataract House. On the lining of the hat was the name "B. B. Crandall, No. 1174 West Avenue. Buffalo, N. Y"
 A body was found and identified as that of Crandall. Ills life was insured in various companies for s10.5OO. Some paid, but Nelson O. Tiffany, Secretary of the Masonic Life Association of Western New York. clung to the opin- ion that Crandall was alive and resist ed payment.
 One hundred thousand circulars bear ing CrandalTs picture were sent broad cast and $2,0O0 was onered Tor knowl- edge of his whereabouts.
 Mir Tiffany, in the spring of 1892, re- ceived telegram from Los Angeles. signed by Mrs. NJ. Roland, asking If CrandalI was still wanted, and if the reward held good. Clews were given by Mrs Roland that led to Crandalls arrest near Los Angeles. and he was brought East to Buffalo. He was never convicted. Relatives paid his way back to California where he entered an old soldiers home.
 Showed How Far He Could Go.
 Edwin Miles and R. H. Trebor, min strels, strolIed to Prospect Point on No- vember 16. 1888, to view the falls.
 "I wonder" said Mir. Trebor, how far a boat could come down those rap ids and not go over the fall"
 Say" called a stranger standing by as they passed "I don't know how far boat could go. but l will show you how far I can go.
 With that the man buttoned up his coat pulled his hat down on his head,