The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-16
Women Faint as College Grad
uate Kills Himself at Twen-
ty-tllird Street Station.
ON PLATFORM.
Police Battle With Terrorized
Crowd, After Victim Takes
Fatal Plunge to Tracks.

A throng Of men and women who
TANNED tho downtown Twenty-third
street station Of the Ninth avenue L
during the rush hour to-day was thrown
into . panic when . young man divsd
from tho edge Of platform under tho
wheels Of an approaching train and
was killed.
The suicide was Thomas OHalioran.
thirty-nve years old. a graduate Of the
University OF Dublin and the Univsr-
sity Of oxford. who had been reduced
to . small clerkship In an express Of
nee. where no earned barely enough to
keep him. Ho boarded at No. "a West
Twenty-fourth street
Many women in the Jam that saw tho
suicide. swooned and one woman. Mrs.
Leslie Reed Of No. 3A West Eleventh
street. became % hystericai she had to
be removed to Bellevue Hospital
There had been q walt Of seven or
eight minutes ON the station platform
before a seven-car local, In charge II
Motorman Paul d. Walker. came along.
CHalloran. . tall. slender man. was
standing on the edge Of the platform. up
toward the northern end. Those near
him noticed he crouched. a. the train
approached. The moto1man also PAW
the man crouching and sensed that
no was about TO jump. Walker shut
or the power and applied the emergency
brakes and the heavy train Eround
along over the tracks with grip2sd
wheels. II was swiftly coming to . stop.
but the momentum was too great to
avert the tragedy
Dives HcApLoNo Before AP-
pRoAchiNo TRAIN.
When the motor car Of the train was
less than . dosen feet away from him,
o'Halioran dived hesdiong. His head
struck on . tie and his body fell
over and was ground under the wheels
Of the forward truck. Before this truck
had quite passed over the body the
train came 70 . stop with an impact
that threw standing passengers on their
balance.
Mrs. May Read Of No. q sands street,
Brooklyn. who stood on the other side
of the suicide. fell back In q dead faint
a. she saw him hurl himself under the
train.
There was Q scene Of shrieking coz.
fusion on the platform. Instantly after
the train had passed over the man &
body. From tho downtown platform,
opposite, hundreds had witnessed the
suicide and several women on that side
Of the elevated structure became hys-
tcrical and swoonsd. The constant
flow OF people up the stairways from
the street served to increase the pr>ss
and confusion and when the reserves
arrived from the West ssventssa,h
street station they had to fight thei.
way through the Jam. Ambulances were
summoned from Bellevue and st. Vim.
cents Hospitals
SUICIDE DELAYS TRAFFIC FOB
FORTY MiNUrEo.
Aso soon As Motorman Walker rot hi.
train to q stop. he blew his alarm sig.
nal OF three whistle blasts and thl
summoned several policemen from III,
street. The crew Of the train then wen
to work to Jack up the car to remov,
the body. This was Q task Of almo,
half an hour and downtown traffic O,
the Ninth avenue IL" was suspende,
TOR forty minutes
| OHalloran came to New York from
London about six years ago, after fail
ing to make any Roadway In the BIRTHS
capital. Before moving into tn
Twsnty-fourth street house he boarde
at No. <47 West Twenty-third street