Show victim of lawsons frenzied finance claiming to have lost his fortune of 80 as result of thomas W law sons attacks upon wall street inter ests a man who said he was frank D austin 40 years old twice on tuesday attempted to throw himself from the brooklyn bridge says a new york dispatch he was prevented by captain devanney of the bridge po lice who grappled with him and after a long struggle in which he was helped by two detectives placed him under arrest in the senate on tuesday senator mitchell or oregon made a statement declaring his innocence in connection with land frauds mr mitchell read his statement from manuscript As he proceeded his voice cleared and there was little difficulty in hearing him throughout the chamber he had the undivided attention of senators and visitors throughout his recital the senators almost to a man faced about when mr mitchell began to speak and few of them changed post eions until he closed the scene was impressive |