Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1920 — “Ghost” taken Alive From Gotham Chimney [ARTICLE]

“Ghost” taken Alive From Gotham Chimney

New York. —Occupants of a " Ridge street tenement house were almost correct when they < i reported to the police that groans oFa had been an- 7 noying them for two days. De-. • - tectives and firemen dug a hole ' in a chimney in the house and extracted David Cohen, a pushcart peddler, who said that, business being bad, he had decided to end his life by jumping down . the five-story chimney. He was taken to a hospital suffering f chiefly from hunger and exhaustion.