The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-10
SAVED AFTER HOURS IN WATER
CARPATHIA BRINGS A STORY or
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.


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Not Be FOund-nrttisA Beat Picked
Him Up After . In Hours-Was Fleat'
ing when Rescued -Watchern Returns.
Officers Of the Cunard steamship Car
pathis, arriving here yesterday from Med
-iterranean ports, told . strange story Of q
would be suicide OF the voyage out, OF q
man being In the water for many hours
and Of his finally being rescued BY another
vessel.
How the man came 10 be picked up alive
was moro than any one on tho Carpathia
could tell, since he seemed bent o suicide
when he dived from the ships deok.
The Carpathia sailed from here for Naples
on July 81. Several days before that a
young Hungarian who said that his name
was Paul Slider applied to the purser for
q job as interpreter, and as that berth was
empty he was employed.
Slider seemed in good spirits when the
Carpathia sailed, but gradually he grew
morose. He told Purser Hodgson that
his wife. In Fiume, had written to him that
she was tired Of waiting for him TO make q
fortune In America and that she was going
away with a man she cared about.
Il want to go to Fiumer ITO BEE II I can't
persuade her to come with me to America
said Slider. Later he declared that he was
tired Of life, inc as the vessel drew near
the other side he became more and more
respondent.
On the night Of August o about 10 o'clock,
when the Carpathia was only half a days
run from Gibraltar, Slider was seen standing
on the port side amidships near the rail.
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of Man overheard Some one threw a
life buoy ove the side and a boat was
low cred after the engines had been stopped.
It was a bright moonlight night, and as
the beet was rowed toward the spot where
Slider as last seen there were heard cries
Of -Don't ave me, let me drown
The boat went in circles for more than
an hour and finding only the mans hat
returned to the Carpathia. Slider was
given up as lost.
At Gibraltar the CarpAthia stopped long
enough TO discharge passengers and then
Gibraltar was a British steamship signalling
that she wanted to speak the Carpathia.
The Cunard ship hove to and waited.
The British ship vas the Benshsw, from
Liverpool for Naples and she signslled that
she had on board the Carpathia's interpreter.
According to the officers Of the Benshaw
abe must have come along about seven and
q half hours after the Carpathia bad stopped
to pick up Slider.
Anyway the man on watch on the bow
Of the Benshaw had heard a cry in the
water about s O'Clock in he morning, and
the interpreter was found floating on his
back near the vessel when q boat was low
cred to investigate the sounds.
The buoy wasn't found, and Slider him
self could only remember going overheard
and sinking ones or twice. II he had the
buoy he didn't know IL. He was very much
surprised when he found himself on the
British ship.
The Carpathia took him on board, and at
Naples he left the ship saying that he
would 20 directly to Fiume.
Robert Watchorn, United States Immi-
grafton Commissioners at Ellis Island, was
a passenger on the Carpathia. He had been
on a vacation trip with his wife and son
and had not looked into immigration affairs
while on the other side. He said incident
ally, however, that he saw no reason to
think that the tide of immigration would
decrease soon. The quality Of those COM
ing and not the number was the question
OF most import.
Mr.. Watchorn said the order Of the Presi-
dent In resembling the order closing Ellis
Island on Sundays wa good.