The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-23
MAN JUMPS
0VERb0ARD;
IS SAVED
WIFE, HYSTERIc. TRIES TO
FOLLOW-ANOTHER BE-
COMES INSANE

New York, July pa suicide in
mid ocean and other spectacular IN
cidents marked the voyage that the
Kaiser Wilhelm H. ended here last
evening
The ship had left Cherboury break
water astern at p. m, on Tuesday.
At 1890 woman dashed shrieking
along the lower promenade deck.
Passengers climbed through their
stateroom windows 10 seize the wom-
an. An assistant purser grabbed
her, believing she was going 10 dive
into the sea.
Meantime Capt. Cueppers, on the
bridge. had been told that a man had
jumped from the rail. Over went an
aeetylene buoy, which famed into a
torch when it struck the water. Sew
snal passengers had seen the man
leap. He was Paul Rathmann. brew
er. of Grand Rapids. Mich. husband
of the woman who had tried 10 over
take him.
After running a mile or two the
ship stopped and was reversed. Oye
dropped a life boat The shrieks OF
9Irs, sRathmann and the kissing Oh
steam on the water line brought out
q crowd of scantily dressed passen-
eers,ei A report spread that the main
steam pipe had burst
Got No Trace ofgHimc.
For more than an hour the boat
searched the waters, while flaming
signals were exchanged with the
bridge, Getting no sign of Rathmann,
the lfelbpat returned.
The brewer had been to Bad Nau
helm, taking the cure for heart dis
ease His case had been pronounced
Hopeless. On the morning of the day
lie disappeared he had said: Il wish
| could die. have only two or three
days to live"
Rathmann was sixty-two years old,
hjs wife is sixty They had booked
by mistake in the second class, but
we're transferred at sea to the first
Class After her husbands suicide
Mrs. Rathmann was placed in the
ships hospital She said she would
nay $1,000 for the recovery of his
body
AT 1880 p. m, on Wednesday, with
the orchestra playing and the first
class travellers dining, there came
shrek from above and a man shot
down from the gallery rail He land
ed upon a table at which sat DR.. Fred
Murphy and DR.. Albert ]. Oeschner
OF Washington University, St. Louis
Near by sat Mr. and Mrs Walter
Gibb of this city and Mrs. Katherine
f. Gratz.
Doctors ouieted Him
Il am an American citizen and
demand protection exclaimed the
jumper.
The doctors saw he was crazy They
motioned back DR.. Weber, the ships
surgeon and calmly invited the man
from above to have dinner. He ac-
cepted their invitation.
he was III. Eggers, of Jersey City,
twenty-nine years old, -who had been
married only few months. He had
acted queerly since the start of the
voyage and had told Capt. Cueppers
ne was being pursued by two men.
Eggers was led away from the ship
last evening by his brother and six
other members Of his family. He
was barefooted.
AT p, IN. Saturday off the Banks
in fog the boots OF strange steam
er were heard on the Kaiser Wilhelm.
The Invisible ghostlike craft seemed
10 be circling the North German
LLOYD eHneT. Attempts were made to
A,kaai her through whistling and by
tpfr wireless but she would not or
SQulq eHoFp reply. Finally her noise
f9dea AWAY. t,st
ygrals Jorn, sonsTa Atenor; Prof Nj
hola@fi Sehlioffsg professor of organic
in, the Imperial Technical
sehoot daf MOSCOW and G. d. Waet-
Nelpt cthe new commercial attache OF
t1e German consulate in New York,
were passengers on the Kaiser VIII
helm II.