Show horrible method of suicide most people have at some time wit hessed revolting sights but the fall ing of a suicide from the cathedral tower onto the pavement feet be low into the midst of the hurrying noonday crowd upon whose faces aud clothes his exploding debris scattered itself which was seen in antwerp re bently beggars description A mer chant known as jacques simons quiet ly left his wife and two children at home as it to go on some business errand made straight for the cathe dral tower climbed it and without an instant s hesitation hurled himself in to space history relates that no one has lumped from this tower since the suicide of its architect to whom a popular legend of the sixteenth century attributes the same fate small bits of brass marking the spot on the pavement where he fell |