Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1890 — SHOULD NOT HAVE FLIRTED. [ARTICLE]

SHOULD NOT HAVE FLIRTED.

Fatal End of an Amatory Excursion Undertaken by John Griffien. New York dispatch: John H. Griffen, a tailor. 25 years of age, who lives on the top floor of the tenement at 104 Bayard street, was sitting on the roof when he began a flirtation with some young women on the roof of 03 Mott street.' They beckoned him over and he went up the stairs of 61 Mott street, but finding that the women were on the adjoining roof, he tried to climb across a picket fence which runs aion tho top of the shaft between the houses. Some one warned him to be careful, but he answered that he was allright. Suddenly the railing broke when ho was halfway across and he fell into the shaft, a distance of six stories. He was instantly killed.