The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-04-18
SAM PATCH NOWHERE,
A Crazy Italian Ieaps From the Nashville
Suspension Bridge, u Distance OF One
Hundred Feet, and Gets Ashore Com
purntiycly Unhurt.

INllIIcu rect anu H'th ho""'S N""'
pnrutivcly Unhurt
From the Nashville American, 9th Inst
At half.past five o'clock yesterday
morning Lawrence Binronpi lett his
dwelling aud fruit store, 1872 Church
street. lie had with him n market has
ket aud u deep plate, lls destlnalion
was Tie market house, II appcnrs that
he was labOrng under TEMPORARY aber
ration OF mind. Instead of gong to
the market house lc went to the sus-
pension bridge. Reaching Il point on
the south side OF the bridge where the
cable comes down TO tnG top Of the
Howe truss he sprHng upon the outside
ralIinI, balanced himself IA second and
leaped down into the ri err, about lou
feet below, holding the position IN
which he started until he got nearly to
The water, when he seemed to draw ul
his legs to his body, and came down
punched up together, his toes striking
first, then his legs and next his body.
he sank entirely under the water, bnl
soon rose again, lie fell into ten fee,
water, within fifty feet Of the shore,
As soon as he came to the surface he
cried tor help. Two colored fishermen
Immediately padd!cd towards him, lie
had, up TO THIS time, been able to swim
and us soon as they came within reach
they threw Il rope to him. He grasped
II aud was pulled IN to shore. lie was
led down to the w%Urkhouse landing and
thence up TO the market house where
he was placed in an express wagon.
When asked whether he was hurt, he
said, No, but an nearly frozen.
lie was conveyed to the corner OF I'm
ION and Summer streets, where he was
met by X. Rinuldo and taken to his
house on North College street. Here
he was attended by DR., Frank Glenn,
who said that his right lung had been
affected by the concuSsion, and that he
would recover in u few days, If kept
quiet. In his opinion, Binconni escaped
with less INJURY Tor the distance he fell
than any nan Of whom he hat even
heard. BIucounl's coat and shirt were
split from top TO bottom, but his skin
was uuinjured.
A reporter Of the American caIleo
upon Bluronni at 2 p, N and asked
nm how ne came 10 jump OH Tho
nrldsc. Saul he:
IL did not knuw | had jumped off
the bridge. | in fact, knew nol'l1g OF
luc circumstance, untIl ! vas brought
urre. | must lu,c been ~lah"rIng ind |
temporal, a"crIutlUn-lhat is. | VAS
out OF my lread-and nid not know
what | Hns duiu2.'
HIS vile, vino was IN the room, said
That financial Troubles hat hrou-ll /,
on; that, III the pas, few years, he bad
lost al,oul $1,000 altogether. ami nov
had II sun IN cOurl lVr money loaned
Oul,
"Ihul's not my trou 'le,' sal" Bin
connl, rs Il tear dropped from his Icl'
eye, my lruu'ie Is "V'r thert -
pointing TO his vile II have possc'
slrellc,s nights, | have stood IN IN,
store from cary IN the morning until y
~ and III at night, and she has KEEP
me awake; there's but one attachment
between ns-my child.
His wife stated that n n%cighhornI
woman had been attempting To mak'
trouble between them; lhat she wa
Industrious, frugal and had tried to d'
all she could Tor MS welfare.
Bincouni appeared in his store in til
afternoon, having apparently recov
cred from the effects Of the tall, II
is universally liked in the ncishhol
hood, and is a quiet, p~eaccahly dis
posed, honest, upright citizen