The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13


tim, when, on Jan. 5, 1889, r. B. Reilly
fell from the roadway to the river.
Some question was raised at the time
whether Reilly did not in fact jump, as,
after he struck the water, he swan
some way before he was picked up by
a boat He was taken to the city hos
pital. where he died the next day from
rupture of the liver. Some time after
this Ed Burdett fell from the bridge
and was killed.
Case of Dottie Lamb.
One of the saddest cases In the high
bridge history was the death of Dottie
Lamb, who fell from the bridge on
Jan. %, 1896. The girl was only TWEEN
ty-two years of age and was known for
her beauty.
No reason was ever found for her
suicide, and at the time it was suspect
ed, and some people still believe, that
she was thrown from the bridge by
man with whom she was seen for the
last time and who has never: since ap-
peared. Her body was found on the
ground below the bridge early one
morning. An inquiry was made into
her death but nothing was ever dis.
closed.
The bridge has list of nearly twen-
ty victims, some unknown, some whose
bodies have never been recovered, and
some of whom are put to the credit OF
the ill-omened structure for lack of
other proof. Among those who have
made the leap were: Jacob Amos and
Henry Bergenkreuger, cigarmakers,
who jumped one after the other on
Oct. 80, 1897; w. ]. Woodbury., who
jumped July 10, 1902; c. ]. G. LIE Al
bian, who jumped April %, 1899; Mary
Dahntsch who made the leap in the
summer of 1895: Alfred Thompson, on
April Z, 1891, and Charles S. Rogers,
who jumped May 10. 1893.
Wabasha Street Bridge Suicides.
The Wabasha street bridge, which
was finished in 1889, had no suicide on
its record until 1894, when an old man,
of name forgotten, jumped to his death
one winters night. Then George w.
Bateman jumped to the railroad tracks
during the past week. There have been
one or two deaths from accident on
the bridge, but it's record is overshad-
owed as is is it's height by the next
crossing above.
The Robert street bridge does not
appear at all in the records of the
coroner's office for the past twenty
years, although it is possible, in the
loose way in which these records were
tragedies may be covered under the
simple statement of suicide drowning"
which appears so many times.
While the Marsall avenue bridge
has not many suicides TO its credit
or rather discredit-in the records, 1t
has one of the worst series of crimes
in the annals of the city. One William
Rosenfeldt in the early spring of 1901
became angered at his wife and, in
order to cause her pain in the most
terrible manner he could think of, he
threw both his children, Joseph and
Samuel, aged nine and two and one
half years, over the Marshall avenue
bridge and then jumped himself. The
three bodies were nicked UP at inter-
walls during the followings months.
But one other death is put down for
the bridge, that of Oscar LIE Brun,
boy of thirteen years old, who acct
IDENTIFY fell into the river while climb
ing on the rail-
The exact number of suicides for
each bridge is hard to determine from
the records, the very terseness of
which but add to the curiosity in each
case.
Babies Dropped From Bridges.
eff these books could only tell the
whole story, what tales of crime and
poverty and misfortune there would
be- said Coroner. Miller yesterday.
Think of the stories behind these
babies picked UP by the dozens, literally
Most of these can be put down to the