New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-18
BIG HUNT FOR JUMPER.
WILD RUMORS FROM BRIDGE STIR
BROOKLYN POLICE.
THEY FINALLY LEARN THAT A MAN HAD
SIMPLY LOOKED OVER EDGE OF ROAD
WAY FROM CURIosITY-A BOY
SWIMMER CAPTURED.
SWIMMER CAPTURED.

WAY FROM CURIosITY-A BOY
SWIMMER CAPTURED.
Sergeant Brophy was seated comfortably in his
chair in the Bridge police station, Brooklyn, at
545 p. m, yesterday. when he called on the
telephone
Hello IS that you. Sergeant" said the voice at
he other end. This IS Patrolman Blake. con-
ductor tells that man has jumped off the
north roadway OF the Bridge"
An right" said the Sergeant Get off the
wire quick"
Blake was dropped and Sergeant Brophy quick
~ called up Police Headquarters and told the Of
fcers there 10 hurry men down 10 the waterfront to
guard the piers. He also sent several of his
own men out 1t was a long time before he
heard anything from them. they were busily
looking for suspicious looking boats
Meanwhile a stylishly dressed entered the
station and, addressing Sergeant BrOphy, said that
he believed a man had jumped from the Bridge. and
asked who II Evidently he supposed that the
mystery had been solved. Brophy had received re-
ports from every part Of the Bridge, but had not
discovered any one that knew of a Bridge jumper.
We'll you're just the man want" said Sergeant
Brophy If you know anything about this mys-
tory let US hear it"
Seeing that he was surrounded by reporters the
visitor became frightened and refused TO say any
thing more or TO give his name.
SAID He SAW MAN DISAPPEAR
I don't want TO get in the papers," he said
Finally he persuaded TO tell what he had
seen.
u was on a Putnam-ave. car" he said going
Manhattan I heard some shout and
locked back. The cars were stopped and I a
man walk TO the edge Of the Bridge and disappear
under the network Several the edge
of the roadway and peered down into the water.
I cid not a jump. but IL looked a though
one disappeared over the edge. Some told
me that had jumped. That is all I know
about il"
As soon as the sergeant saw that his visitor
giV infO ion ne all
TO go 1t was learned afterward that he Ed
mund r. Terry. a Manhattan lawyer, OF No. y
Eemsen-st., Brooklyn.
Sergeant Brophy had communicated with Patrol
man Blake who first reported the supposed Jump
er," and learned that the story had been given to
him by the conductor OF Myrtleave. No. 1272.
who was then at the Brooklyn entrance to the
Bridge his way Ridgewood. A roundsman
vas sent out TO find this and get further
statement from the conductor. 1t was learned
that the conductor was William Boyd. of No. 361
Palmettto-st- When Boyd found by the rounds
man he made the following statement:
NOTICED A CROWD GATHER
! was coming over 10 Brooklyn on the south
roadway when I saw the cars stopped and crowd
gathered the north roadway. I did not see any
one jump nor did 7 see any one in the water. But
when saw the people looking over the Bridge I
and so reported to PaTolman Blake when
Sergeant Brophy cooled down considerably when
be learned what Inspector Manchester of the Brook
Chester eRpianed that he Was on the Bridge Mhen
the excitement began. 1t seems that accident
happened to the pole of a De kaIb-ave. car. Some
one. thinking OF the story in the morning papers,
walked TO the edge OF the roadway to see how it
looked Another passenger on the car, who evil
IDENTIFY had Bridge jumpers the brain, raised q
cry Of Look Quit He is going 10 jump" In a
second a dozen men had started for the edge Of
the road
The first man turned around with a laugh when
he the commOtiOn he had created, and the
others at that they had made mistake.
The situation explained, and those in the
crowd thought nothing more of 1t until they heard
the rumor that had started in two different direc-
tons and reached both ends of the Bridge.
PEOPLE GETTING BUGGY"
Sergeant Brophy wiped away the sweat from his
brow laughed. and remarked dryly:
Wei, people getting buggy over Bridge
jumpers
All this time Patrolman Blake, not the who
had received the report from the conductor Of the
NyrtIe-ave car but another, was having a nice
for q while that he had solved the mystery. When
he reached the end of the pier and gazed out over
the river he two boys lifting a into a
boat. The man was nude and appeared TO be
he was the trail Of the Bridge jumper called TO
the boys and motioned for them 10 come in. They
did The nude man proved TO be boy, George
Munro. Of No. 63 Cumberland-st. He said that he
3IcAlister Of No. Il North Portand-ave., and John
Robinson, of No. IS Cumberland-st They said that
they had rented the boat in the Wallabout Basin,
and all out for swim. Munro's clothes,
which in the bottom of the boat, were dry,
and il seemed apparent that none of the party
had jumped from the Bridge. They all taken
the Bridge station. however, and later dis
charged