Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1919 — TAKES ELEVEN-STORY LEAP [ARTICLE]

TAKES ELEVEN-STORY LEAP

Salesman for Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Company Pick* Spectacular Suicide Route. New York, April 18. —An elevenstory leap from a window sill in the view of hundreds of girl employees in a loft building across the street was the method of suicide chosen by James O. Miner, formerly of Rome, N. Y., according to the police. Before leaping to his death Miner, salesman for a lumber firm in Oshkosh, Wls., paused on the ledge, which faced Broadway at Twenty-fifth street. Scores of nearby were opened by those who saw bls purpose and women screamed. Miner's stenographer said he had been ill.