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Show Horrible Method of Suicide. Most) people have nt somo tlmo witnessed wit-nessed rcMiltlng sights, but the falling fall-ing of a sulcldo from tho rathedrnl tower onto tho puvemont, 210 feet below, be-low, Into tho midst of tho hurrying noondny crowd, upon whose faces and clothes his exploding debris scuttcicd Itself, which wns seen In Antwerp recently, re-cently, beggars description. A merchant mer-chant known ns Jacques Simons quietly quiet-ly left his wlfo nnd two children nt home, ns If to gn on somo business errand, mndo straight for tho cathedral cathe-dral towwr' climbed it, and without nn Instnnt'scaltntlon, hurled himself In-"to In-"to spaco. ItlBtory rotates (hntno ono has Jumped from this tower slnco tho sulcldo of l(s architect, to whom a popular pop-ular legend ot tho sixteenth century attributes tho same fate, small bits of In ins marking the spot on tho pavement whero ho fell. |