The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-12
ROTn'S SIX-STORY TUMBLE.
sMdSBEs A GLASS ROOF AND SpOILs
4 JdNITOR,s BREIKEAST

It Was Chicken, too, tho Janitor Ruefully
Remarks but He Let Go OF II on Seeing
the Man Hanging nv His Hands From
tho Roof-The Victims Leg IL Broken.
Mr.. Cohen. who keeps the umbrella store at
4l6 Grand street stood ut his window yester-
day morning gazing moodily out at the clear
skies and wondering II his business were ever
aRain TO have a show when he saw little man
trying to pry up the cover Of the coal chute with
screwdrivcr. He went out to see what the
man was up to and at that moment two police
men saw the stranger too. and. concluding that
he was a thief. started after him. The fellow
ran. He lodged around the corner into the
house at ~ Attorney street. ard was lost.
The policemen gave up the chase and Mr..
Cohen went back to his reflections.
II might have been ten minutes later when
William Burkhard. the janitor OF 41S Grand
street. looking IN from his breakfast table in
response to an exclamation Of his wife. saw the
same little man hanging by his hands from the
edge OF the roof across the way. six stories up.
IL was clear that he was going to fall. Forty
feet feet below was the glass roof OF a photo
graphic atelier The jnnltor sickcned at the
sight.
Il was entinR chicken" he said reQretfully
afterward but when ! see him so. I turn away
my head and IL let go OF my chicken"
just Incn tNe man on the ROOF let 60 100,
and the crash Of the atelier roof mingled with
Mrs. Burkhard's screams. They were echoed
within the atelier 10y those 81 Mrs. Dunhrow.
the wife OF tho proprietor. She ran and fell
| upon her husbands neck. He shouted for the
police.
| 1t was decreed that there should be no peace
for Cohen, the umbrella man. that morning
lie was the first who reached the wreck ed
htelier, painting with the offort of the run.
Backed 10y Mr.. and Mrs Dumbrow he flung
| open the door to the Hateful room. AMI stood
| spcechlcss. There. on the floor, amoag all the
wreck. sat the lit e man with tn, screwdrver.
| blood hespattered. but cheerful. He sat di-
| rectly In front OF the big camera. and was ap-
| parently studying a pose. As he caught sight
OF Cohen he greeted him Familiarity
How are you. papa hdiiny with whm-
steal gesture rs my coat on straight"
Two policemen ran In IuSt then and ynnked
| him out Of the aielier He was pretty badly
| cut M The surgeon whom they called in
ventored his hurts as q broken leg. n lhccrated
| scalp md face, and "A hand cut more or less
| He took the man over Ia tn. hospital after tho
| police hal got half q dozen names from him
| and settled upon one, Charles Wulff. to call
! him by. He was q Russian lahorpr. he said.
| and lived ut 40 Wictt street The police put
! down that he tried to commit suici le
They were mistaken in this as well M in the
| name. The man was poor half-witted fellow
| who having got upon the roof Of the Attorney
! street house. wandered about until he strayed
! over the edge oi roof half block away He was
! not Charles Wulff at all. but Joseph Roth The
| latter fact appeared when inquiry was made in
the Willctt street house for n man who was
| ''nashuRo" MnshuRo Ia Yiddish for mad.
| Then they all knew who he was.