The sun., 1905-10-16
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" Tho tram Tho hfM wont oui iiid ihon
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tho nrrafitiph IN tho dafkhess iie
cfawl"d l5ch ~ Tho cnl,rose and called tho
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'fhcto'' some'hlng on N" train thtec
cara ahead" hc aid
why don't you find what Il is'' asked tho
con uctnr
You con" and hook Yourself aaiI tho
They both climbed on tho rear car The
fircboN opened again. md thny could 500
| " plainly, II wn4 u rakcd man
They scrambled forward The man WA
clineIng to a clrat, h'it hi- eyes were closed.
They SHOOK him. lie said something in
cohornt and continued 10 hang on The
trannen took on their cont- and covered
him Tho freight was drawing into Yonkcra
by this time, The conductor sienallcd
for stop and blew his police whstlp Po-
lcnman Miller answered it..
Here, take this man, we don't want him.
said the conductor The trainmen lifted
their passenger down, left him with Miller,
and continued North
The naked man was not able TO stand
He appeared weak and dazed. His skin
was wet and he was very cold Miller
! rang up an ambulance and sent hun to St
Josaph's Hospital. The house surgeons
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gave him stinulants and by and by he was
able to say that he was Dr. A. s. Knudsen
and that he lived at the City Club, New York.
About that time Policeman Delhi Of the
West 152d street station. making his early
morning round, found mans clothing
scattered on the ground under the Man
haitian end OF Washington bridge. The
blue suit was made by fashionable ta or;
the hat, shoes, gloves and underclothes
were expensive; it was the dress of pros
porous man. A check book, two cable
grams and some letters showed that the
clothes belonged to DR.. Arthur Sinclair
hnudscn. living at the City Club.
That point on the Harlem River is a
favorite one for suicides. The bank is
just a smooth, stone wall. Once in the
river. it is impossible to climb back at that
point. The police put it down as suicide
and 70 reported It to headquarters.
Detectives from the West l52d street
station reached the City Club to look for
friends of DR.. Knudsen and break the news,
just a. telephone message came from
the house surgeon at st. Joscph's.
1--WE have Dr. A. S. Knudsen of your
club in the hospital" said the surgeon.
"He hasn't any clothes and doesn't know
how he got here. What shall we do with |
him.
W. F. Wilbour, Mr.. Knudsens attorney
and his classInate at Harvard, happened |
to be in the club at the time. When he |
heard the news, he started for Yonkers,
picking up DIR. II, s. Satterlee. They
made a stop at the police station for DR..
Knudsen's clothes and hurried to tho
hospital. DR. Knudsen was better; he had
even tried to tell the house physician how
he got there.
IL started away from the club last night"
he said Il was afraid-I don't know why.
! walked up the avenue, and then l ran
That wasn't fast enough, so took cab for
High Bridge. j got out of the cab and started
to run again. My clothes were too heavy,
so / took them off. | remember climbing
onto freight train think l don't re-
member anything more,
The Ionkers police, having heard OF the
New York report to Headquarters, placed
Dr. knudsen under nominal arrest for at
tempted suicide The first concern Of Mr..
Wibour was to remove this charge. He
persuaded the police not to hold DR.. Knud-
sen, and at O'Clock last night they brought
him to New York. He was taken to the house
Of a friend, where DR.. Satterlee is taking
care Of him. His condition is not serious.
DR.. knudsen Is native Of Honolulu,
member of an old pioneer family there
and world traveller He was graduated
rom Harvard in 1896 and took his medical
iegree from the College Of Physicians and
Surgeons In 1900, but has never practised.
He has been travelling over the world since
lis graduation. He stayed in New York '
between flights, usually at the Harvard or !
he City Club
Three weeks ago he arrived here from y
honolulu His friends at the City7Club
loticed that he did not seem well. His q
heeks were hollow and he was very mel r
nchoy. Saturday morning he asked for s
is mail at the Office There was none.
Il never get any mail! think you're u
eeping mail from mel" he said. g
The clerks thought this peculiar. Just Il
fter dinner call for bell boy came from k
)r. Knudsen's room The boy who started d
} answer it passed DR.. knudsen in the hall. h
10 was running at the top Of his speed. b
Ie shot out Of the front door and turned Il
oward Fifth avenue, still running. fl
To get to a New York Central freight b
ON the point at which the clothes were
,und, Dr.. Knudsen must have walked I"
cross W ashington Bridge naked or have r.
yum the Harlem. As he comes from Homo
lu, where every one swims we'll, and as he
as wet when discovered on the freight car, 1t -,
taken that he travelled by the water route. u
The trainmen told Policeman Miller p
at the last stop they made before getting %
Yonkers was at Spuyten Duyvil. but they cl
i'd nothing OF previous stops. spuyten "
uyvil is two and half miles north Of "
ashington Bridge. Knudsen could hardly W
we made that distance naked without ~
ing seen and stopped, and as the tide q, q,
IS running down the Harlem he could q
It have swum II. W
. DR.. Knudsen has been very melancholy a.,
ID his nerves have been in bad shape.s - -
i'd Mr.. Wilbour last night. 1T was a M