John Ward was the 28-year-old scion of a wealthy family, reports Havas. He met his death after one of the most weird exhibitions in the history of the United States. He had stepped out of a window in his room on the seventeenth floor of his hotel and proceeded to take a stroll along the 14-inch ledge that jutted out from the building's facade. He smoked cigarettes and behaved more or less normally, but remained deaf to entreaties to return to his room.
Policemen let down a container of water to Ward from the floor above, but he would not drink it until it was tasted by some of his "attendants," stating that they were trying to poison him.
Lighting up a last cigarette, the youth threw himself off the ledge, missing the nets by a few inches, crashed through a glass roof-top and landed on the pavement from a height of over 200 feet.
Motion-picture cameramen were on hand to take pictures of the event. Hawkers reaped a fortune selling and loaning field-glasses to the large crowd which had gathered as the report got around.—Havas. of Germany's diplomatic offensive against Czechoslovakia." The paper rises against any foreign political intervention in the Czech situation—
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