The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-06-13
JUMPED FRoM BRooKIYN BRrDeB
Was Picked Up Unhurt-Not an Aspirant
for Eame, He Saws. but Tired Of Life.

for Fame, He Says, but Tired of Life.
New York, June 12.-Another man
jumped from the Brooklyn bridge this
morning into the East river-success-
fully to the mind of harebrained seekers
after fame, but unsucoessfully as he
regards it himself. He sought death,
but when he found himself in the depths
| of the river he changed his mind and
! struggled for his life
| He out-did the previous jumpers mas
much as he carried no weights on his
| feet and had no boat to pick him up,
but coolly swan on his back until he
was able to climb on a ferry boat, and
when he reached land he walked un-
aided to the police station. The man
was David Cohen, a Hungarian, of 115
Ludlow street. He is twenty-three
years old.
Leo Vettelheimer of Jersey City
Heights was driving his wagon near
the entrance of the Brooklyn bridge
at 10 o'clock when young man of
medium height, attired in a respectable
appearing gray tweed suit and brown
hat, accosted him and asked him for
| assented and the young man climbed
4 VII tAlU W0bDhs "a SlIirtil pOy VI LLe
name of Stephen Connolly was also
on the wagon.
During the drive out on the bridge
the young man sang in broken English
Two Little Girls in Blue"
By the time he had finished the song
the wagon was one hundred feet east
of the New York tower in the southern
roadway Connolly commenced to
laugh at the fellows singing and the
man replied:
you laugh at me now, but you will
cry when you see what I am going to
do"
AS he started to jump off the wagon
Connolly seized his coat tails, but he
broke loose and ran up the roadway.
Vettelheimer's cries attracted the at
tention of Policeman Duryee, who was
on the footpath Duryee called to- the
man to stop and then started to climb
down to the roadway. Policeman Gan
ley saw the fellow and ran to stop him,
but before he could reach him he had
climbed between the lattice and the
iron girder at the side of the bridge
and dropped off.
Looking over the side of the bridge
the men saw him turn three times
Then he struck the water on his back
and sank from sight. In a minute he
rose to the surface. He was seen to
strike out and then, having fully re-
covered himself, rolled over on his back
and commenced to paddle slowly The
strong tide carried him along under the
bridge The ferry1boat Wyoming, run
ming from the foot of Roosevelt street
to Grand street, Williamsburg, had Just
left its pier when the man at the wheel
spied the jumper floating rapidly to-
ward him. He stopped the boat. When
the fellow was about fifty feet away
the deckhands hurled a life preserver
to him He did not see 1t and came
padding ON. He got right under the
bow and the deckhands called to him
and held a boat hook out for him. He
grasped 1T. Then long ladder was
showed over the side of the boat into the
water
He crawled up few rungs and then
firmly clutched the ladder, which was
drawn into the boat. AS soon as the
fellow reached the deck he commenced
to laugh He was apparently suffering |
from nothing but nervous shock The |
tugboat Hosmas steamed UP to the Wy
OiHlHS, IOOh lHe jumper ON lDOdTu ana |
landed him at the Clyde lime pier.
Bridge Policeman Cash. who had hur- |
ried down to the pier on learning of the |
accident, at once arrested the Jumper, |
who gave him his name. Cohen was |
trembling violently, but was perfectly
and walked at the policeman's |
side to the Oak street station. Here he
emptied his pockets, laughingly, hand
ing out knife, an empty pocketbook
and 50 bill. A call was sent for an
and one arrived from the
Hudson street hospital. The surgeon
found Cohen seated I'M chair, shivering
but apparently suffering from
no serious injury.
Cohen was asked why he had jumped
from the bridge. He replied in broken
English: II wanted to drown myself
| cannot make living" why did
you swim If you were going to kill your
self? Did you change your mind?" was
asked He nodded his head in assent.
Then he picked UP his coat, and at the
command walked out to the
climbed in and was carried
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