The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-28
STRAYED TODEATH IN SUBWAY
MAN JUMPS BEFORE ENPREHS
BETWEEN STATIONS.

,r,.,,, lur,s hin, OH FOurt eenth street
switch and Ills skull IL Crushed Pa
,.rs SHOW lie Was Theodore r. Page
~ Jersey CITY suicide. Police say.
A man identified through papers IN ms
nocket as Theodore p. Page OF o. mercer
street. Jersey City, jumped in front OF
southbound subway express train AT d
point some distance south of the Eighteenth
vt rect station Just before u O'Clock last
night and was instantly killed. block
resulted on the sonthbound tracks Just IN
the busiest hour.
How Page got to the place where ne
iumped il somewhat OF a mystery. None Oh
the gatemen at the platforms at Eighteenth
street remembered seeing him. The ponce
thought last night that he might possibly
h.ya GOT down into the subway at the
Fourteenth street station, which IL busy
T. - at that hour, escaped the attention
ABOUT MY - wan and got down at the
the platform at Eighteenth stfro,e there
: c. Barlow the motorman Of the train, toll,
the police that he was just slowing up TO
the stop at Fourteenth street when in tn,
gloom he saw the man dart out from behint
pillar on the west side Of the tunnel.
The man, Barlow said, took quick glanc,
at the train, then turned his back to IL ant
stoored over, standing In the middle Of thu
track. Barlow put the emergency brake
on, but the train was within few feet o.
him. Nearby there il a crossover switch
10 the southbo,nd local track. The train
hit the man and threw him over on to THU
switch
The train was quickly stopped At first
II was bought that Page was still alive
Barlow, the rnotorlnan ran up to the Eigh
teenth street station and told the gatemai
what had happened. The gateman got
Policeman Clancy, who summoned an am.
tuance from the New York Hospital The
doctor found that Page was dead. His
head had been crushed
In the meantime express trains began
to pile up behind Barlow's train and the
passengers got bit excited. They also
got overheated Barlow finally jumped
! on his train and went on with ii. The
| local track on stretcher and this stopped
lot OF local trains.
| 1t was taken to the West Thrtieth street
station and later to the Morgue. Barlow,
to the police and was paroled by Coroner
Scholer in the custody Of Supt. Merritt Of
the subway
In the dead mans pockets the Coroner
and police found lot Of papers addressed
and knife in the pockets but no money
Other papers showed that his father
Charles T, Page. was in the roofing business
az l75l, York street. Jersey City. There
was also memL ership card Of the First
Ward Republican Club Of Jersey City
Page lived with his mother and his brother
George at the Jersey City address. His
father, Cha rles 7. Page, died two weeks
ago. and the dead man and his brother
succeeded to the business. 1t was said
at the Page house last night that Page
had gone over to boss job in Forty
second at rect yesterday. They were ex-
pecting him home last evening. when word
rea ched the house that he had been killed
in the subway. Mrs. Page was not told
of her son death. az she IL till Frustrated
over the death Of her husband.
Page was we'll known in Jersey City He
was prominent member Of the First Ward
Republican Club and was nephew Of
Horace H. Farrier, wealthy retired bust.
ness man Of Jesrev CITY George Page,
his brother refused to believe last night
that his brother had committed suicide.
He had no reason for doing So" he said.
He did not drink and was getting along we'll
in business. believe it was an accident
The police think the motorman's story
proves that Page committed suicide