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Show JUMPS INTO RIVER, Sick Man From Hospital Leaps 100 Feet to the "Water. PHILLIPSBURG, N. J., Oct 22. A man about 21 years old, who was a patient at the Easton (Pa.) sanitarium, Jumped from the Delaware bridge Into the river, a distance of more than 100 feet, at noon todai'. Ho floated down the stream and let out a weird yell. Painters employed on tho bridge hastened has-tened to the river bank, and ono of them went Into the water and stnrtcd to swim toward the drowning man, but the would-be would-be rescuer was unable to reach him. The cries for help attracted tho attention atten-tion ot others, and a man launched a boat and succeeded In saving tho patient ns he was sinking for the second time. Tho workman who nltemptod to swim to tho rescue narrowly escaped drowning himself. |