The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-11
REPENTEO AFTER
HE ATTEMPTED
SUICIDE
JUMPED FROM LINER BUT AFTER
HOUR IN TIE WATER CHANG.
ED HIS MIND.
LUSTY CRIES FOR HELP
From Another Ship-~Marvelous
Tale of the Sea Told in
New York.

New York, Sept, 1a---File story Of 2
marvellous aescue at sea which, if con
tanned in a work of fiction would he
declared impossible, was told by the
officers of the steamer Carpathia, OF
the Cunard Line, ~nich arrived in
! penel 200 miles west Of Gibraltar.
Just before the Carpathia sailed
from this port on August / young
/ man approached 7. c. Hodgs0n. the
purser and ked that he be given a
position of Hunga ian and Italian in
/ terpreter, in order tha. he might work
/ his pa sage To Naples. The man gave
his name as Paul Sidler and said he
! had been N America Two years. About
a month before he had received a
letter tlom friends in Fiume Hun
gary stating that his wife had broker
mp his home and had left with his
child He wanted 10 return TO his
native country in order to find his
wife and re-estblsa n nome Purser
Hodgson was impress ed with the
story and gave him the position
During the voyage Sidler was very
cheerful and did his work exceedingly
well. However a. the steamer near
ed Gibraltar he became melancholy
and the officer endeavored 10 cheer
him up, bu found it imposs Bile
Plunged Overheard.
On August o about $3.50 in the
evening, Slider, In the presence of
several passengor-, jumped over
board. The ship was stopped and an
electric buoy thrown ov9'baard A
boat was also lowered Sidler was seen
in the moonlight struggling with the
waters, and cried to his rescuers. Go
away. Let me drown, ! don't want o
be saved" The men in the boat, how
ever, rowed toward where he was,
but lost s ght of him u a cloud pass.
ed over the moon. Search was con,
tinued for nearly IN hour: but no
trace of him could be found Then |
the steamer continued on her journey. |
The British steamship Ben Shaw, !
on her way from Liverpool o Naples, |
takes the same course as the Carpa
thia. and while she was steaming |
along cries of Help! Save mel We're
heard. The steamer stopped and a
small boat was lowered The man
was picked up and told how he had
jumped from The Carpathia,
In telling his story to off.cers of the
British ship he said that he saw he
'e.cuing party at work having stay
ID in the shadow all the time. WheL
be Carpathia started on her trip ne
aid he was sorry he had tried to die
nd wondered how he could be saved
A Wonderful Escape.
Swimming and floating about for an
our, he said hat he faw the lights
# the British hip IN the distance /
nd thought that she would take the {
anne course as the Carpathia. He the
wan about a mile and half and (
managed TO get almost directly in the
oure of the Ben Shaw. As she ap /
reached him he cried out several a
INES, and finally attracted the att-n S
on of the ships officers. who tooh !
i'm aboard neatly eight hours after :
G had jumped in,o the ga. d
The Ben Shaw continued on htr way Il
, Gibraltar. and beng a faster boat. %
gertook the Carpathia in the Mediter- O.
mean. Sae exchanged signals with &,
le Carpathia. and t1en told OF how "
ie had picked mp the Interpreter. The d
70 boats landed In he Itlliau port on b
e same day and when the stories
the jumping and rescuing werr t n
e officers of tha ship ma-velod. No "
Ie could renenier m inc dent like "
before. Slider LETT the Fec Shaw ol
ID said h. was going back to his ~,
me among the mountains. find his b,
fe and child and then re-establish
; little home.