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Conference 7.286::maynard

Title:	Maynard -- Center of the Universe
Notice:	Welcome to our new digs...
Moderator:	PRAGMA::GRIFFIN

Created:	Wed Aug 06 1986
Last Modified:	Thu Feb 20 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	509
Total number of notes:	4062

299.0. "Mill chimney climber" by 21007::LESAGE () Thu May 30 1991 13:03

    Last nigh at approx. 9:00 p.m. a man jumped the fence at the mill
    climbed on the roof of the boiler building and then climbed to the top
    of the mill chimney.  The police, fire dept. and ambulance arrived. 
    The man climbed down, talked to the officals was handcuffed and taken
    away in the ambulance.  About 50 peole were watching from the Walnut
    St. entrance of the mill.

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299.1 REGENT::WOODWARD Executive Sweet Wed Jun 12 1991 11:43 32

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299.1		REGENT::WOODWARD	Executive Sweet	`Wed Jun 12 1991 11:43`	32
	This article is printed without permission from The Minuteman Chronicle's, Saturday, June 8,1991. ********************* MAYNARD ********************* SUICIDE JUMP STOPPED AT DEC A 27-year-old man who threatened to jump from a nearly 300-foot high smokestack at the Digital Equipment building May 29 was coaxed down by police and firefighters. Police learned of a suicide attempt at a Digital Equipment Corporation smokestack on Walnut Street from a passerby who reported seeing a man climbing the smokestack ladder at 8:16 p.m. After some coaxing, the man relented and climbed down the smokestack ladder to the roof of the boiler house, which is about 2-3 stories high, Police Chief Arner Tibbets said. Forty minutes after they arrived, Sgt. James Dawson, Officer Clifford Wilson and Fire Captain Robert Loomer rescued the man by climbing up a fire engine ladder and bringing him down, Tibbets said. The drama was witnessed by a large group of onlookers, the chief said. Tibbets said police and firefighters continuously talked to the man while trying to save his life, urging him "not to let his problems get the best of him." "Everybody did a good job," he said.

This article is printed without permission from The Minuteman Chronicle's, 
Saturday, June 8,1991.

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     			MAYNARD
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     SUICIDE JUMP STOPPED AT DEC	

A 27-year-old man who threatened to jump from a nearly 300-foot high 
smokestack at the Digital Equipment building May 29 was coaxed down by police 
and firefighters.

Police learned of a suicide attempt at a Digital Equipment Corporation 
smokestack on Walnut Street from a passerby who reported seeing a man climbing 
the smokestack ladder at 8:16 p.m.

After some coaxing, the man relented and climbed down the smokestack ladder to 
the roof of the boiler house, which is about 2-3 stories high, Police Chief 
Arner Tibbets said.

Forty minutes after they arrived, Sgt. James Dawson, Officer Clifford Wilson 
and Fire Captain Robert Loomer rescued the man by climbing up a fire engine 
ladder and bringing him down, Tibbets said.

The drama was witnessed by a large group of onlookers, the chief said.

Tibbets said police and firefighters continuously talked to the man while 
trying to save his life, urging him "not to let his problems get the best of 
him."

"Everybody did a good job," he said.