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A Life Saved Only To be Lost a Year Later…

Chicago, IL —The Internet is adding information at a rapid pace.   I often wondered what happened to a suicidal woman I helped pull from the Chicago River in July of 1976.   Today I found the tragic answer. It was just after eating a rather large breakfast I was in my personal car Westbound on the Congress Street Expressway Bridge by the huge post office building.  Suddenly in the stop and go rush hour traffic I saw a women bleeding from both wrists climbing on the South side railing of the bridge and suddenly she jumped into the filthy water below.  I pulled to the right and stopped my car in an effort to deal with the obvious emergency.  I crossed all the lanes of traffic on foot.  I discovered a man had broken the glass covering a life preserver and managed to hopelessly tangle its attached rope to the bridge. I could see the woman floundering below and ran down to the embankment to aid her.  As I was running I saw a man later ...