New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-08
LEAPED TO BECOME A FREAK
MRS. MARTHUR HOPES TO GET PLACE IN
A MUSEUM.

SHE JUMPED FROM BROOKLYN BRIDGE IN THE
BELIEF THAT SHE COULD SUPPORT HER
FAMILY-wILL PROBABLY RECOVER.
Mrs Clara Macarthur. the young woman. who at
tempted to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge ten
devs ago. but was prevented by the police. dropped
off the Bridge quietly the darkness at $3.50 o'clock
Yesterday morning. She taken later to the
Hudson Street Hospital prisoner under the formal
charge of trying commit suicide. when she was
picked up she was unconscious, out she sooh re-
covered.
The latest bridge jumper seems to have been
,,o,ed bv q wish 10 earn a living for her husband.
wbo is a railroad man out Of work, and for her
child The family has been living In poverty.
she Thought she could 800 week by jumping
from the Brooklyn Bridge and afterward appearing
In dime museum l.
Mrs Macarthur carried on the Bridge III
furniture van from the Brooklyn end
Che was dressed In mans clothing. consisting OF
O nair Of trousers blue woollen sweater covered
with a common blue jumper. stocfings ana "ea''
shoes The stockings were much too large lot hei
and were filled with sand in order TO give the heces-
sarv weights TO her feet and prevent her from
turning over in the air. Round her waist ana OUT
side the Jumper she wore an American nas' anu
ot,acbed 20 the waist held by short strings were
,wo ordinary badders intended TO serve the same
purpose as a parachute.
THE WOMANs LEAP
IN reaching the middle Of the Bridge the woman
spped quietly off the wagon In which sne mao peeH
concealed and climbing the fence whlch separa'es
tho north roadway from the railroad track oropPeu
Coo, foren,ost through the space between the giroers
She was noticed only by Bridge Policeman VINO
as he afterward reported TO his sergeant mercy
80 q DARK form on the roadway. which disap-
r.ared Immediately under the railroad TRACKS, nea'
the New-York tower. ..-
The officer did not expect to ma oriuse jumps
at that hour and the first intelligence tnat "oia
had made the jump came from the o'' ''p ''"0N
station. I'D, ~,
Tho discovery OF the bridge jumper was mace Ds
poi,ceuar Edwards who has post in Sou'n-S'
alorg the river front. He was patrolllns MS pos'
at 4 o'clock when a stout. smooth-iaceu N'a'', w."
az, bat or coat. rushed up TO him and exclaimed
excitedly: Officer. get an ambulance quicN i''
lust picked UP a woman In the river
1880 ror IN the station house and sent In a
ali 70 hudson ST. t Hospital. Returning to the
man. he asked where the woman was 10 De iou',
and was conducted TO Pier No TO- "here e', ,
boat was tied up In the bottom OF the ooa' '@'
the woman man also in the BOAT anu was
endeavoring to restore her 10 consciousness
HOW THE JUMPER JARED.
~ xorraeon responded to the call from Hui-
son Street Hospital. He could not ma that any
~ the woman's limbs broken. but having
orrad over her for half an hour without succeed
inc in restoring her 20 consciousness. ne removed
her TO the hospital entering on the sup describing
tho case that the patient suffering from SUD
mersion."
When the ambulance left the whart the men
would have followed IT, but the policeman insisted
on them returning with him 10 the station. Ser
0sanf brown questioned the TWO men FROM tne
man who had summoned the policeman 10 me
hoai he could learn nothing except his pedigree
which he gave William Hartman; tnlrty-e'Snt
wears old and single cgarmaKer living al NO
40 rh sanonS man however who gave his name and
ddrss ss John McNally brcklayer. OF No. 2374
Third-ove when questioned TO who the woman
VAS replad: why. she's the woman who tried
to Jump OF the Bridge ten days ago
oh. yoa present on that day. them? re-
McNaliy after some hesitation remarked: Yes:
we were under agreement 10 walt under the
"Tben I shall hold you both for aiding and
abetting this woman 10 attempt suicide by jumping
from the Bridge" was Sergeant Browns decision.
and the men were sent 10 cells.
McNally and Hartman were arraigned IN the
Tombs Police Court in the afternoon, when the
Hospital TO the effect that the woman was suffer
ing from submersIon and bruises on the right side.
The doctors thought she might be able to appear
to-day. 49,, -,
land suddenly a woman struggling In the
water We rescued her from drowning. I think
we ought TO be rewarded instead OF punished"
Have you any Witnesses asked Magistrate
Crane OF the policeman.
Discharged" said the Court.
McNally and Hartman smiled and told the re-
porters an entirely different story. They said that
the woman's husband had arranged with them TO
wait under the centre of the Brooklyn Bridge at 4