Scott (Samuel, daredevil).- Rose and Bell, Bankside. Samuel C. Scott the Celebrated American Diver, Is open to all the World, to Leap or Dive with any Man, for the Sum of One Hundred Guineas..., printed broadside, small loss affecting one letter, one letter provided in ink manuscript, short tear into text without loss, light folds to foot, partially laid down on album leaf (leaf chipped at fore-edge), 365 x 240mm., J.W. Peel, [c.1840].
⁂ Scott was an American diver well-known for his death defying leaps, including a purported 593-foot jump from Niagara Falls. Tragedy struck on 11th January 1841, when Scott inadvertently hanged himself while diving from a scaffold on Waterloo bridge into the Thames, which first involved swinging away from the bridge from a rope wrapped around his neck.
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