Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-01-05 | Page 1 | Changes Mind in Death Leap

CHANGES CHAr MIND INDIN IN DEATH DE A LEAP LEAI Would Be Suicide Re- Re Repents Re Repents penis Half Halt Way Vay Down He lIe Lives PHILADELPHIA Jan By 5 B ByThe The Associated Press Halt Press Halt way down In a foot drop tram from the center o of the Delaware river bridge to the water Is no place to o change chag Yur your mind In t the th e attempted suicide from tram the span I wanted to end It all nil ho he said from a cot in a hospital to- to today today to today I day I 1 thought my whole life lICe was useless and leaped off oft the bridge e When W I was In the air halt half halfway way down traveling tra lik like a I bullet build I changed my mind But I was in ina Ina Ina a bad place to change chanc my mind mindI I 1 was Vas going down down down Somehow I 1 changed chanced my post post- posItion position tion lion in the air as IS It if It were a dive In an old swimming hole Just liko doln doing a black flip till But the tho speed I remember in a fraction ot of a n second I saw buildings slit past me taster faster than anything I over ever saw I 1 was a good swimmer and had hod no tear fear of the water after I Iwas Iwas Was in it I 1 remember hitting the water I went vent under tinder I dont don't know how far Cor It was just a repetition of at the fall fail down down down then everythIng went black I 1 dont don't e e e- e member being picked up Church made mada his leap from ll- ll almost al almost most the same sarno spot picked a few tew weeks ago aco by Joseph Stasis Ie t 34 the only other man to live liv after the plunge from the tb bridge Sev Soy Several eral other persons have made mado t the e leap and been drowned