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Show Falls 125 Feet, .Lives. JERSEY CITY, N. J., NdY. 11 Thousands Thou-sands of spectators today watched Robert Simpson, soldier in the army signal corps, climb a five-story building and to the top of a flagpole on the roof, 126 feet from the ground, lose his hold, plunge to the street and escape death. He landed on the cloth top of a moving automobile. The driver sped with him to a hospital, where it was found he was injured, but not too seriously to jump from his bed and salute an officer who came to ascertain ascer-tain his condition. Simpson climbed the building as a Liberty day "stunt." |