The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-03-10
QUEER FANCIES
of Suicides Lured To Death BY
Fascinating Niagara
Falls.
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and includes many strange cases.
Ann Hall, "a years old, committed
suicide 80 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 Sister Island on August 10,
1884, when they were startled by
man emerging from the bushes. He
was clad only in light underwear.
Tossing articles of jewelry to them
he leaped into the boiling waters
close by. He was Herman Wuttke,
of Buffalo, and his act was due to
dependency.
There have been suicides at night
as well as by day. c. V. Sweet, of
Jersey City, on August 81, 1885,
strolled out from his hotel to enjoy
Niagara by moonlight. At Prospect
Point he found mans coat and pa
pers in the pocket indicated it be-
longed to Chamcey Hough. of Bata-
via. A week later Mr.. Hough's body
was taken from the whirlpool.
Edwin Miles and r. II. Trebor.
minstrels. strolled to Prospect Point
on November Is, ISIS. to view the
falls.
Il wonder" said Mr.. Trebor,
"how far a boat could come down
those rapids and not go over the
fall"
say" called "A stranger standing
10y as they passed, IL know how far
boat could go, but will show YOU
how far | can go.
With that the man buttoned up
his coat, pulled his hat down on his
head. threw away a cigar, and, leap
ing upon the parapet wall, dived
headlong into the currents few feet
back from the brink Of the Ameri-
can Fall, over which he was quickly
swept. He was Charles Champion,
of Buffalo, p years old, who had
had no trouble, so far as his friends
knew.
Niagara was startled September
10, 1891, by a double suicide. but
the incidents had no relation to each
other. Walter Haywood, of Buifa-
10, leaped into the river from Luna
Island, while Mrs. Bessie Luders, Of
New York, entered the river from
Prospect Park. Haywood was f.
nancially 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
Luders had a helping hand out
stretched to her at the brink of the
falls, the incident being one of the
most tragic ever known at Nj
agara.
r. |. 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 10 feet from
the brink of the American fall.
Three times he grabbed her cloth
ing, but as many times did she pull
away She was swept over the
brink. 1t was with difficulty that
Helm regained the shore.
Clerks in the postotlice and express
offices occasionally have strange eX-
periences with persons bent on sui
eide. In 1891 man called at the
American Express Office and sent his
watch and money to Louisville. The
agent suspected the man and the po-
lice arrested him. He admitted he
was bent on going over the falls.
The body of woman found float
ing in the lower river May Is, 1892,
was identified as Miss Emma c. Aup-
perle, of Philadelphia. Her friends
said that once while chatting she
said:
IF / ever commit suicide ! will go
to Niagara. selected the spot two
years ago when | was there"
1T is all for that woman" wrote
Noble Kenny, of Buffalo, before he
went to death from Prospect Point.