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Show MAY HAVE LEAPED INTO THE SEA Seattle, Wash, Jan 17 Officers of the Alaska Steamship compan are imestlpatinc thc disappearance of Allen W Jackson, second assistant engineer of the steamship Santa Ana, from the steamship Northwestern Saturday Sat-urday night He was a passengor aboard the Northwestern .from Seward, Sew-ard, Alaska, and Is boliovod to have leaped into the sea while the vessel was steaming for Seattle Officers of the Northwestern assert Jackson was laboring under the delusion delu-sion that his wife and daughter, who llvo at San Pedro, Cal., had been burned to death. Jackson. wno was 32 voars old, had been followed by misfortune Ho was first assistant engineer of tho steamship Rnmoa, of the Pacific Coast Steamship company's fleet, when that vessel was lost on Spanish Island last Soptcmhcr and was aboard the steamer steam-er Pordita when sho burned to tho water's rdgo off Point Ludlow last October Oc-tober His thrilling ORcapo from tho burning Perdita, when he leaped into the sound, Is believed to havo unbalanced unbal-anced his mind. nn |