EDISON SAVES A LIFE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 195, 12 May 1908, Page 4

EDISON SAVES A LIFE.

Mr. John F. Randolph, for more than fifteen- years tho right-hand man of Mr. Edison, the great inventor, committed suicide recently in a lit of melancholia, duo, it is supposed, to overwork. After writing notes of farewell to his wife and tho inventor, Mr. Randolph went down into a cellar and blew out his brains.' ' No v sooner was tho tragic news telephoned to Mr. Edison than, with extraordinary prescience, lie, jumped into a motor-car and drove at breakneck speed to tho home of his assistant. He was just in time to see Mrs. Randolph, who is tho mother of three children, run upstairs to a top-story window, with her clothes toili to shreds, and shrieking in freiuicd grief. Moaning "Oh, John, John, I'll kill myself, too," tlio poor woman sprang to tho sash. Rut Mr. Edison, who had run aftor her, caught her by tho waist ;as sho-was about to throw herself to tho flagstones below. A struggle ensued, for tho maddened woman, crying, "I must go to John," caught tho invento:- by tlio.throat. When assignee at last arrived, both Mr. Edison, -.vho is aixty-ono years old, and tho woman wero exhausted. , Mrs. Randolph was forced into a chair while the electrician administered .ill opiate. Mr. Edison, who does not know what overwork is, observed that ''Mr. Randolph never could be induced to take a vacation, but preferred always to remain at work.