The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-04
SOME AWFUL EXPERIENCES.

Alpine Climber Who Hung on the
 Edge of a Precipice, and Boy Who
 was Carried on Spokes of a Wheel.
 Surely one of the most terrible expe- riences which ever befell man is that which befell Gerald F'itz Gerald while on Monte Rosa in attempting to de- scend to Macugnagna. He had left the Margherita hut, and was tied between two Swiss guides named Amer, father and son. On the way down they were passing along a dangerous ledge when MT. Fitz Gerald and the younger guide fell over. The rope held, however, and young Amer succeeded in dragging himself up over the face of the rock. After he had saved himself he returned to the Margherita hut, whence he tele- phoned to Alagna for immediate as- sistance. It was impossible for MT, Fitz Gerald to raise himself as he had broken his right leg. There he re- mained for seven long hours, Supported by rope and suspended over preci- pice at a height of ten thousand five hundred feet. Could a more horrible situation be imagined? It was the old buide who succeeded in supporting MT. Fitz Gerald the whole of the time. Old Amer stood motionless for seven hours with his legs propped up against powder, the whole weight of MT. Fitz Gerald being upon his body. Eventually when help appeared poor old Amer appeared utterly exhausted by the vast strain being put upon him. Eight guides and two physicians con- veyed MT. F'itz Gerald to Alagna, It is needless to say that all the inhabi- tants warmly cheered old Amer as he came down the mountain.
 A tourist named Gregorex was on the edge of & precipice much longer time than this, but still he was not suspended in mid air MT. Gregorex was found on a narrow ledge of rock on the Emir, where he had been six days Of course, he had been the whole of the time there without food or drink, and if he had moved he would have fallen down the side of a precipice six hundred feet deep. It is surprizng how long life may be main tained in the midst of cold. For in stance, in Westmoreland a sheep has been discovered who das buried on Dent Fell for twenty-two days. It was got from the crevasse and thawed out, when it was able to walk mile and<a half home, There has been built recently a great factory chimney in connection with Lowfield Mill, Belf1eld, near Rochdale. One day three work mem named Walter Dempsey, Joseph Evans and Samuel Bardsley were en- gagged in winding up some of the mate ri8l for the top when it became entan- elied in the scaffolding and would move neither up nor down. Thus it was that the men were effectually imprisoned in their earial position at the top of the chimney.
 Eventually the Rochdale steeple-jack Joseph Smith, was summoned to the scene, and he devised a. method of es- cape. Acting upon his advice, one of the men tore his shirt into strings and tied the pieces together to form rope. One end of this shirt rope was let down. and to it was tied good stout rope which was hauled up to the top of the chimney and made secure. Af- ter this a saddle was fastened to the end of the rope and it was hoisted up, and eventually the fen were lowered safely to the ground, after four hours imprisonment. The other day an er- rand boy with medicine box under his arm jumped on the back axle of cab at Heignmouth. The result was that the wheel of the conveyance dragged his box into the spoKes and the boy after it, The boys head was on the outside of the wheel and his legs inside, and in this position he was dragged a distance of four hundred yards. Atevery turn of the wheel he revolved, and at the end ot his re- fnarkable ride he was not hurt Some little time ago the Reighley police were attracted to 8 man fastened in door and could not get out.
 Then the constables tugged and pulled and jerked and pushed at the human carcass fastened in the door, but it was firmly wedged. It was ne- CeSSary to DESdk III tllS VoO4 pS+olS they could possibly release the man. When a policeman got insde the house to break in the door he found a num- Der of articles of wearing apparel al- ready packed in readiness for removal This is surely one of the most eomical captures of a burglar ever known. When upon trial he appealud to be sent to Armley Jail instead of having to tie on the bare boards of Reighley police station he told the magistrate amid considerable amount of laughter that for long time he would not like to have to sit and sleep on bare blanks Lance Sergeant Murphy of the Singa- pore water police has had a remarka- ble adventure. It was set him to ar rest two notorious gamblers who had taken refuge on a barge moored off the boat quay Immediately the men sighted him they dived under water. Sergeant Murphy, however, was not baffied, for he dived in after them and found the two criminals in the slinly mud at the bottom of the harbor. There he seized hold of them and brought them to the surface. He