Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1869 — An Insane Man Swept Over the Niagara Falls. [ARTICLE]

An Insane Man Swept Over the Niagara Falls.

On Ffllay 35 years of .age. JstOnpw dr the Cataract House, Fiagjufa.Kaffs,' anil.'fcgiStWedi his name as “Cfart Schurs, New Yorfa’l Saturday tnorning'heleft the hntM without pay - ing his bill, and, taking a carriage, started for bydgp._Hesubse? quently changed has mind andW3st th the ferry!, arid driAsdd to Oanhda. i It ir said -thaL.in going over, be. remarked to tfafc feryy-mem, while looking up at the falls, that he could walk over on the edge of thw falls. *Reaolringrille Canadianaidebfijveirt 1 tbltabkvrodk, and, walking.to tttrtwooa-. work, Which projects into the ritfee-m few .Steps apoyp Saul DaViS’ off his coit.luid it on the timber I ,"gaVe lift' money toa boy who was standing by, ana walkea.iutd the water, whiclP is shallow near the-iwik. About ten feet from the bank, he- art down 1 or. slipped down, and in an instant after : was swept over the precipice. Persons who we/e uiyler the the bodjf 1 On a rock; wh'efe it rbthaiholS Several mipi utes teterQ te The body had not been recovered at last accounts. TNe iohit bf tlio sidcldo ianflltWo pair of, glttefeS’irc'riow in possession of Mr. G. B.‘ LcWis, Clifton,XJWt; ’ “- 11 " The drfcsb and general itppfearnnce df the man \ycre that of A respectable' person, and Jt is not impTobalilc ’ that hfe- - ttiought he was'‘‘Cttri Schurz,” and thattih-eoulij. walk across., the edge of the .cataract. Thia, catastrophe will add a frdsh’dhiMrertothe interesting History of fljd’ falls.— Buffalo