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Show The Ogden Accident. ! La9t evening'a DUpatclt gives a ml account of the tigbt-ropd accident al gden on Monday evening, together H with a hiatory of the parties. Thr ! boy had never been in the situation before, and w.-.a bliodfolded in order , that he would keep quiet. He did so , uil nearly across, as described, t when he became nervous, let go bis bold, and fell, aleo causing Megginaon to lose hi balance. Tbe boy is not yet dead, and there are some hopes of bis recovery. Hia father has been found in the person of the eherifi of Junction City, Kansas, and is now 1 doubtles on bis way to Ogden. U .J claimed that the boy was warned of his danger by Meggisoo, and voluntarily volun-tarily went info the exhibition. Meg i ginson waa placed in jail on Monday I Q'gbt for his protection, ai there waa i aome talk of lyochine him. but nnh1i i sentiment having moderated, he was released yesterday morning, since which time be baa nursed the boy with great aesiduiiiy and tenderness. Megginson Hy he was born at Darlington, Dar-lington, England, in 1-S40; has been a rope-walker for twenty-two yeara, and has carried a boy on his back over two hundred times before, without with-out accident. He has Hereosoopic views representing him walking at, Niagara, where, under tbe name of Otis, ho cUims to hae leaped 240 feet into the wMer; alao at Elgin, Illinois, and several places in Iowa. |