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Show TOLLTAKER HAS A HARD STRUGGLE Omaha. Neb , Dec. 31. D L. Mc-Clanahan. Mc-Clanahan. tolltaker on the state bridge between Omaha and Council Bluffs, had a desperate struggle with a would-be suicide yesterday and came near losing his own life. Noticing a man climbing over the railing of the bridge. McClanahan rau and grabbed grab-bed him before he could drop into the water The man threw an arm about McClanahan's neck with the apparent ap-parent Intention of pulling him over the rail into the water seventy feet a struggle of several minute?, during a part of which the man waa hanging from the bridge man's neck without other support, a pedestrian crossing the bridge came to McClanahan's McClana-han's assistance and the man. who gave the name cf Daniel Yates, waa taken to police headquarters. ' His sanity Is being investigated. |