Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-24 | Page 1 | City is Upset as Stranger Walks on Power Wires

: CITY IS UPSET AS ; STRANGER WALKS i 1 ON POWER WIRES , MOBILE, Ala., April 24. ' After spending the night on , 1 -electric, ttjfijciis'Jd.ntert j graph wires at trie intersection of two of the principal streets ! in the downtown section, dis-1 rupting light and car service, j I Charles Sanders, a lineman, de-1 scended safely early today into the arms of waiting policemen who had pleaded with him for fourteen hours to forsake his perilous perch. The officials said Sanders was crazed with narcotics of which he had partaken at intervals while in the.air. He told t:c po lice thnt ho believed the crowds which had gathered to watch him were bent on lynching him. Sanders is well known here. Some years ago when several men were buried under a falling wall during a theater fire, he was lowered to the ruins by a rope and rescued all cf the men. He was given a purse for his j bravery. i Sanders was locked up today as soon as the police could hurry hur-ry him away through the crowdc. . o