| Show FOOLKILLER BUSY I JUMPED FROM THE POUGIIKEEP SIE BRIDGE iili FEET I i i Was Badly Injured anti Died 1 Few Hours kater No Arrests Yet Made POUGHKEEPSIB N Y Oct 26 Patrick King Callahan 26 years old who lived in New York jumped from the lved of the Poughkeepsie bridge into the river today The distance is 212 feet At least thirty people saw feet Callahans exhibition of nerve The bridge Caahans jumper was seriously injured and paid for the daredevil experiment with his life Callahan and his hackers John P Eckhardt and William Lloyd of New York accompanied by a dozen sporting arrived at Highland men and reporters Highand on the 608 train this morning Callahan Calla-han accompanied by four of his party climbed up the mountain side to the entrance of the bridge where they entance him eluded the watchman by telling of painters they belonged to a party who were engaged dn > painting the bridge They passed out to a point within 175 feet of the west shore where Callahan prepared to jump He wore a nail of black trousers and a navy I blue woolen shirt over a suit of ordinary or-dinary underclothing and wove heavy leather shoes His associates strapped a cork life preserver around his waist shoulders and attached a bladder to each of his Without a Sign of Fear Callahan clambered over the railing and hung from the edge of the footpath by his hands His friends were waiting I under the bridge in two row iboats to pick him up and as soon as he saw them he shouted good by to those on the bridge and let go As he neared the water his legs separated and he struck with a noise that sounded like the report of a gun He came to the surface quickly and groaning as if in great pain and struck out for one of the boats the occupants of which picked him up and took him ashore Then he was carried to Deans hotel and a country doctor said he was not I seriously injured This afternoon other doctors found Callahan in a state of complete collapse and suffering from hemorrhages caused by a serious laceration lacer-ation of the perinatum extending into aton bowels No arrests have been made I Patrick King Callahan clamed ito have jumped from the Brooklyn bridge and the Black Friars bridge London seven years ago I As Callahan continued to sink a 1 priest was sent for Rev Father Btu der arrived shortly after 4 oclock and administered the last rites of the curch Th man failed rapidly and died at 1125 6 |
