Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1907 — Side Lights on History. [ARTICLE]

Side Lights on History.

Sam Patch was preparing to leap the awful gorge at Niagara falls. "If anything happens to me." he said, “everybody will say it was because I took a drop too much." Then, without waiting for the crowd to tumble, he jumped.