Troy Daily News
18 January 1938
FORMER TROJAN IS KILLED IN TEN-STORY LEAP FROM REIBOLD BUILDING,
DAYTON
T. NELSON NORTH SUCCESSFUL IN SECOND SUICIDE ATTEMPT
BURIAL HERE THURSDAY
Funeral services for T. Nelson North, 32, native of Troy, who was killed Monday afternoon when he jumped from a window on the 10th floor of the Reibold building, Fourth and Main streets, Dayton, will be held at 2 pm Thursday from the Morris Bros. funeral home in Dayton and burial will be made in Riverside cemetery, Troy.
It was North's second suicide attempt in four days. Last Friday he was admitted to Good Samaritan hospital after cutting his throat. He was treated for the lacerations and released from the hospital Monday.
Ill health is believed responsible for his suicide attempts.
North's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore North, former Trojans now living in Columbus, were with him after his release from the hospital. He disappeared while the three were in downtown Dayton and later leaped from the building. Hundreds of shoppers were passing nearby and several narrowly escaped being hit by his plummeting body.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Lawrence, of West Carrollton, told police they noticed the man open the window and sit down on the ledge backwards. He seemed, according to the witnesses, to hesitate for a few moments and then flung himself backward.
C. E. Hauver, who was standing on the fourth floor of the Kuhn's building, said he had turned his back to the street when North began his plunge, but caught a reflection of the falling body in his eyeglasses.
North was a graduate of Ohio State university and had made his home in Columbus for the last seven years. He was a coal salesman.
The family moved from this city about 15 years ago.
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