Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1901 — Find the Rupe Had Been Cut. [ARTICLE]

Find the Rupe Had Been Cut.

While “Professor” Smith was attempting a “slide for life” at Watertown, N. Y., July 4, his apparatus broke and Henry Phillips of that city fell sixty feet to the ground. Phillips died Sunday. It has been discovered that the rope holding Phillips waß cut. The officials are investigating.