Warde was buried in Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn following a private funeral service at the New York and Brooklyn Funeral Home, located at 187 South Oxford Street in Brooklyn.
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Writer Joel Sayre wrote about the Warde suicide in The New Yorker, in an article entitled “That Was New York: The Man on the Ledge,” which was published on April 16, 1949.
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The Sayre article was adapted by Fox into the 1951 film Fourteen Hours, with Richard Basehart as the man on the ledge and Paul Douglas as the police officer who tries to talk him out of jumping.
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