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provided details about how the climb would occur: "As he climbs he will perform many a stunt to amuse and startle the interested throng. All this time his figure will be in the glare of a searchlight provided for the purpose and his feat will be done without the aid of any mechanical device." Crowd
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described him as a "boyish-looking man of 57 years." Gardiner reportedly moved to Europe after New York enacted legislation forbidding anyone from climbing on the outside of buildings. Details surrounding his death are unknown, but a person matching his description was found beaten to death at the
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attendance was estimated at more than 5000 persons. Plans to climb the White-Browning building were canceled when
Gardiner could not procure permission to scale it. On January 29, he climbed the five-story Pioneer Hotel in Logan. On February 1, the
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lowered hook to get a finger hold on the edge of the roof." Most spectators watched from
Stratton Street and extended sixty to seventy feet out on Cole Street; hundreds watched from the windows of nearby buildings. From Logan, Gardiner traveled to
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