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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 April 1908, Page 1

Mr Thomas Edison, the great inventor, who was 61 recently, saved a woman from suicide. It seems Mr John F Randolph, for more than lo years his right-hand man, committed suicide in a fit of melancholia, due, it is surmised, to overwork. After writing notes of f arowell to his wife and tno lin.vent.or, Mr Randolph went down into a cellar and blew out his brains. INo sooner was the tragic news telephoned to Mr Edison than, with extraordinary proscionce, ho jumped m- > a motor-car and drovo at breakneck spoed to tho home of his assistant. He was just in time to see Mrs Randolph, who is the mother of three children, run upstairs to a top-story window, with her clothes torn to shreds, and shrieking hi frenzied grief. Moaning, "Oh, John, John, I'll kill myself, too!" the poor woman sprang to the sash. But Mr Edison, who had run after her, caught her by the wnist as she was about to throw horßelf to the flagstones below. A struggle ensued, for the maddened woman, crying, "I must go to John! caught the inventor by the throat When assistance at last arrived both Mr Edison and the woman were exhausted. Mrs Randolph was forced :n a chair while an opiate was administered. Mr Edison, who does not know what overwork is, observed that Mr Randolph could not be lnduead %• ike a vacation, but preferred to remain at work, I