Salt Lake Telegram | 1904-04-02 | Page 8 | Leaps from Skyscraper

LEAPS FROM SKYSCRAPER Sensational Suicide of Kentucky Man in Hew York City. ; NEW YORK, April 2. Sidney John- ston Hayden. of the Hotel Holley, this city, Jumped to the 6treet from the top floor of the twenty-one-story skyscraper at Broadway and i New-street. New-street. Nearly every, bone in his body was broken. When he Jumped his body made one full turn backward 1 and struck the pavement with fearful force. Most of the persons on thestreet ran away in horror. "A dispatch from Louisville, Ky., says Sydney Johnston Hayden, who committed suicide in New York by Jumping from the top floor of a skyscraper, sky-scraper, was prominent as a' man and related to many prominent Kentuck-ians. Kentuck-ians. , During his residence in . Louisville some years ago he was one of the chief clerks in the auditor's office of the Louisville & Nashville railroad. , After leaving Louisville he became auditor of the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad. Later he opened an office of-fice as an expert accountant in New York. He was a bachelor. ArousJn, James J. Buckner, Jr., is president of the Louisville Board of Trade. .