The Arizona champion., 1885-05-23
Bad Apaches Getting Tired of Monoton0us
 Reservation Life.
A SHOOTING AT WHIP.
 PILE BARRACKS.
ANO T H E K ROOKL YIN
 BRIDGE SENSATION.
Ex-Sceretary Frelinghuysen Dead.-~ictor Hugo Reported Dying.
A Jump to Dcath.

NEW YORK, May f6.-This after
 noon a cab Jeff the New York en- trance of the Brooklyn bridge, and
 was driven to the middle ci the great span. Hefe the driver pulled up and
 two men got out and began to climb
 the railing, As a policemen was or dering them down, covered wagon containing Prof. Robert E. Odlum and a companion stepped about 100 feet behind the cab. Quickly divest- ing himself of a blue flannel coat, Prof. Odlum, clad in red shirt, jumped from the carriage and sprang lightly to the railing! Reaching the top he stood cree, and glanced hur- .ridly at the surface of East river, far below him. The people set up q cry of horror when they saw the professor prepare to jump off the bridge into the river, I35 feet beneath his feet. The policeman rushed toward the professor but before. he had gone dozen feet Prof. OSiunT, without a moments hesitation, had leaped out from the railing into the air. He held one hand above his head as rudder to guide his descent. A tug and schooner Heated lazily in the stream several hundred yards below on which were reporters and club men. Capt. Boyton stood near the prov, anxiously watching the railing. Harry E, Dixey, the actor, started stop watch which he held in his hand in order to time the descent. For nearly hundred feet the profess or came down all right, feet foremost. He shot downward with the speed of a meteor, his red sutt making him easily diScernable for long distance. When within 90 feet of the water his body commenced to turn. As if req GGing his danger Prot, Odlum brought down hSs hand %ith q warlike motion to aid him In recovering his balance. The moyemet was, however, made too late. His bedy had now turnd so far that it was impossible to change its course. Half second llTcr; with a mighty splash ,ha: threw Inc water up on all sides, as if torn with q shell, Prot. Odlum's body struck the water on one side and sank out of sight. The tug hGrridly pushed itself forward to the place where the body .ell, and Capt. Boyton with life observers sprang over the side of the boat and waited for the body 10 come to the surface. Soon he saw the white face of the professor rising from the water and was soon by his side. Seizing life preserver he placed it beneath the body of the insensible man. Blood mingled with froth came from his mouth. 4 row boa. ccne to the res cue and the body was taken out of the water. ReStora,ives were admin istered and after little rubbing the eyes of the professor opened. "What kind of jump did ! make ?" "First- class, my boy responded Capt. Boy ton, You'll be all right in little while," but he was immediately inl sensible again, and died before the pier was reached.
 Professor Odlum was formerly the professor of a swimming bath in Washington, but latterly has been a clerk in the Willard hotel. It has been his ambition to jump from the
 Brooklyn bridge. He made the at
 tempt once before, but was prevented by the police. He was three and a quarter seconds in the air before strik- ing the water: He was unmarried, B
 years of age and man of good hab'
 its.