The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-06
Safe leap from Brooklyn Bridge.

this year. Sarge Plunkett.
Safe Leap from Brooklyn Bridge.
New York June 25.-Sufering
merely from shock and ruptured
tynpanum, Philip Krantz, 80 years
old, an engineer, is prisoner in the
Hudson Street Hospital, charged with
attempted suicide, having dropped
from the Brooklyn Bridge in the sf-
| ternoon.
When asked why he had done 80 he
calmly told the men who pulled him
out Of che river that he just happen
ed to think he could make the leap in
safety and he tried it.
Thereupon the police set down the
man as daredevil. but there is good
reason to believe that he is ailing
mentally and really did not realize
what he was doing at the time. He
had been patient in the New York
Hospital for weeks, his wife paying
ESQ week sent out Of their little eav-
ings for medical attendance.
Three months ago he was discharged
from the hospital with the information
that he was suffering from an incura.
BILE ailment. He and his wife moved
from the apartments where they had
been living, at No. Morton street,
to cheaper quarters at No. 1856 West
Tenth street. He has not been able
to get any position owing to his eyes
troubling him, and he complained of
suffering from incessant headaches.
For more than dozen years he had
been the engineer Of q big Office build
ing in Broadway near Houston street.
His feet and limbs began to trouble
him and then he complained of pains
in his. head anu had to give up his
place last winter, Recently he has
been rather despondent because Of
his inability to earn any money, and
he has brooded over the loss of two
children who died not lc1g ago. He
and his wife were reserved and did
not mix with the other dwellers in the
apartment-house, but their neighbors
speak highly Of them and say he was
the last man in Ene gesiS &C aosnv
efooihsTdy feat. .a
Yesterday afternoon he ! left the
house. Saying he would take o walk
and perhaps be able to hear Of some
position that he could eli. The next
his wife heard from him was when she
and her mother returned from walk
and were Informed that he was q pris-
oner ct the hospital.
lasAbopt s o'clock Henry James, Who
is employed on pier No. 20, East R;y-
er, ;saV Q man, body shens, down the
Bsoeklgns bridge snsar the highest
pass ossthe spar likeo plammes, strike
Che water aud disappear.
sasIlo saastonishment the man rose
20 the surface and began 10 swim
aturdily toward the Manhasesn shore.
james ran % che Oak street station
and told che police 10 ealls an anaI ,asnnbu-
lance. One arrived from the hospital
about the stiIne two boatmen pulled
Krants from che water.
10 tho ambulanee surgeon he gave
his name, ago and address, and said
he was married. Acting Captain Fen
nelly Of the Oak street station, who
had run TO the pier also, said to the
man: .'Whatever did you do that
for?''', 5S .5:3
Krants smiled in . half-puzsled way
| and then said slowly: '.Nvhy, I Just
wanted 70 see il T could do it, and +
| did, didn't Ter So
He had q gold watch and 3 few dol
larsin lis pockets, and when ih,iis mis-
| clothes were removed his surgeons de-
clared ssnat they could find no visible
evidence of any injuries except that
the drum of his left ear had been rup-
| tured and he ewas suffering from the
shouk of his plunge iato che water
from height of l35 feet. & s 81 NJ 9sSs Is:7
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