The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-24
cA1IAnAy,s FEARFUL JUMP.

Jumped From Brooklyn Br dye Yesterday
Badly Injured and Taken to Hospital
Risked His Life on the Result of a Wager
for 81 roo.
New York, July 23lPatrick. alias
King" Callahan, bartender, who
gave his address as No. 434 Third ave-
nue., dropped from the Brooklyn bridge
into the East river at ten minutes to
o'clock this morning. He was picked
up by two men in a row boat, and was
taken to the Hudson street hospital,
where he lies IN dangerous condition.
A man named Edward McGorry,
whose brother, Felix. keeps a saloon at
Third avenue and Thirty-first street,
was arrested by the police as an ac-
complete of Callahan, and was taken
to the Oak street police station.
Callahan's jump from the bridge was
a we'll planned one, and not policeman
was near to hinder him when he alight-
ed from a carriage and dropped into
the river.
The first intimation of the bridge
jumping that the police had was from
Conductor Joseph Barr, of the bridge
railroad. Barr was standing on the
front platform of his train, which was
nearing the New York tower on its trip
to this city at $50 o'clock, when his
attention was attracted by cab which
was driving slowly toward Brooklyn
on the south carriageway.
Two hundred feet from the New York
tower the carriage stopped, and man,
lightly clad, jumped out, Bars vision
was obscured for a moment by the
structure of the bridge, but on looking
downward and toward the Frankfort
street pier, he saw the body of a man
dropping from the bridge toward the
water.
The mans body seemed to turn as it
fell, and it struck the water under
the bridge with a splash which raised a
mass of spray resembling that cast up
by the paddlewhees of steamboat
Barr also caught glimpse of row.
boat making toward the man.
The man lay on his face in the water
motionless. So far as Barr could see
he appeared to have two bladders strap
ped to his shoulders, and these buoyed
him up. The eabman whipped up his
horses and drove rapidly toward Brook
Ign, as soon as the man ahghted from
the cab.
When the train reached New York
York tower Barr called to Policeman
Doyle. who was on duty and told him
what he had seen. Doyle telephoned
the news to the New York entrance of
the bridge and Policemen Farrell and
Stanley ran at their bestspeed to the pier
at the foot of Dover street.
They arrived just in time to see a
rowboat making toward the dock In
the boat were two men who were row.
ing and another who lay back in the
stern sheets as though exhausted, and
was wet and scantily clad. This man
was the bridge jumper.
The man was assisted ashore by
Peter H. Renson, the keeper of barge
which was lying at the pier, and by
another man, who displayed great So
licitude for the jumper.
Callahan was Immediately placed I'M
der arrest. He remarked in weak
voice that it was bigger jump than
he thought, and that his back was
hurt. In reply to the questions of the
policemen he said that his name was
Patrick Callahan, but that he preferred
to ge known as King Callahan.
He came to this country fourteen
months ago. he said, from the west Of
Ireland, was twenty-seven years old,
and worked as a bartender at No. 434
Third avenue.