| Show thrilling exhibition of norve nerve bernard koehler anil and fritz ilis gen two house painters had bad began gan painting the largo large house at belts betts street and central avenue three in ili the afternoon found them close up under the caves eaves of the house and s sixty L I t Y five ive feet from froin the ground the they i had read K busl it finished t the he surface within y reach fill and lad started to lower the scaffold a ft few feet when the required distance had been readied reached called to hh partner to hang on to the rope until the Il isgen tied liia big own when ho lie would come conic over and perform a like service for him esgen had bad just lust completed his own knot when koehler cried out come over ver quick I cant told it ll isgen as quick as possible started across the aerial bridge but had bad not yone cone two steps when lie saw the man inan let go liis hold and felt the ladder give way beneath his foot feet As ho be began the fall in ill tile energy of desperation lie with both hands gra grasped Aped the almost smooth top ofalie fourth story window cornice and there lung in the air a distance of sixty feet from front the Va pavement lie ile then ten gave an exhibition of nerve that terrified everyone who saw it placing tha toe toc of one lie boot hoot against the window frame lie gave his body a slight pendulum motion away from the house A second push gave him abettor impetus and as he be swung on the return toward the window lie here re lea leased ed liis his hold and went cras crashing bilig through the glass safely to the floor of ofilio tile fourth story room froin whence he immediately looked out through the aperture ho lie lad made to sec see what bd become of liis his companion koehler Koc liler had not been quite so fortunate As lie went shooting through the air he caught the tile hanging rope with both bands and lessened liis his speed swed all ill themay them alie way ay down at the expense of a all the cuticle of his palms which was burned off by the friction lie ile landed in a sitting posture on the sidewalk and was taken to the hospital with t i a pair of very sore hipa ci an n commercial |
