The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-23
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DRUNK tine W them hal thrown IN hta
hat and cesi. which weFe ~ the truck
This drives peeinesl ~ he oIllylusia ~ tbs
nah, nu,ng ~ lehind him.
The man who~s coat and hat were N
s,Hldenly lTuhe away from tho ufhef,
junp~l N the lpch ~ the truck altnos,
~ the centre ~ the span, ran Hcru@s tho
roadway and yaul,el the fallIhs. u hap.
rts,eSI 80 quickly that he was oft OF sight
bpfOre any one faisul q shout,
Then n group ~ met on q truck Just
behind tho une on which the fight had Oo'
currsl yellel In unison and sioppeVl traffic
fW u while.
In the meantime the crew ~ tho navy
yard tug P%entucket, which was hauled up
alongside Of the Clyde Line pier under tho
bridge, had seen the man come tumblinB
through the air. lie tnrned over and over
in his lhght and hit the water face down,
with his body doubled up like a ~jaekknife.
Capt. Norman Of the Pentucket had his
boat headed out Into tho stream In a jihy.
but the tide was running In strong and
when the bridge jumper came to the SUR
face he was 800 yards up the river.
He was either unconscious or dead, ac-
cording to the tugboat crew, far he made
no motion to swim and sank almost I'M
mediately at a point about opposite Cath
crime slip. The tugboat cruised around, but
couldn't find the body.
A motorman Of a Gates avenuB car made
for this end OF the bridge with the news,
and Roundsman Nugent and a bunch OF
cops hotfooted it for the waterfront. They
had hard work locating III tugboat, which
had hauled up at another pier. Some OF
the men on the truck notified the police
at the other end Of the bridge, and all were
taken to the bridge station. The truckman,
Joseph Mallon Of 81 Cumberland street,
Brooklyn, said the men had got On his truck
at the Manhattan end Of the bridge, and he
didn't know Of the fight until he heard the
shouts Of the men on the next truck
The man with whom The bridge jumper
had been fighting was too drunk for the
police to get much out OF him. He said
that he was August Rodtwitt and that the
man who had jumped OF the bridge was
Victor Stevenson, a painter, whose bpother,
Brooklyn.
According to Rodtwitt, who said he was
a friend OF Stevenson's, the latter had been
yesterday afternoon from a
police court prison In. this borough, there
he had been locked up for five days for
fighting in the street.
Il met him near the hrid ge, " said Rod
twitt, -and he and / had some drinks. Then
we sta rted for Brooklyn, and on the way
over he sale he wouldn't be looked up again
and that he was going to jump off the brid ge.
l tried to stop him, but he got away from
me-"
Capt. Brophy decided to lock Rodtwitt
No one by the name of Stevenson was
found at 400 Atlantic avenue.
TRIED TO JUMP PROM NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
John M. Glazer. a German shoemaker,
81 years old, tried 10 end his life by jumping
from the Williamsburg Bridge early last
but was unsuccessful in the attempt.
Ola zer's wife died two years ago and the
Did man q health broke down shortly after.
He was unable to work at his trade9and was
forced to go to the German Home, at Bush
avenue and johnson street, Brooklyn.
G!azer wa liked out on the bridge last night
and when near the centre he leaped over the
railing and down to the trolley tracks below.
II was his intention to leap from there to
water. He carried an umbre LA and
used it as a parachute TO break HE fall, it
being a drop of nearly forty feet from the
to the tracks. The umbrella
inside out and Glazer fell heavily
to the tracks, suffering a brokenirib and
severe COMMISSIONS.
Before he could get up and jump over the
ra iling alongside OF the tracks GaZer was
by Policeman Ganzglock, who
summoned an ambulance and had the old
man removed to Bellevue Hospital, charged
attempted suicide. Glazer admitte cd
hat he had tried to kill himself. His con-
.ition is not serious, but owing ito his ad-
vanced age the doctors say the shock re-
from the fall may Prove fatal.
m AuFRICAN HITTER