Mental Lapse Blamed
A. C. Cook Thought To Have Taken His Life In Fit of Melancholy.
Mrs. Cook Delares Family Life Was Happy and Money Could Be Had. Burial Services Are Simple.
Temporary insanity, induced by gazing from a dizzy height, is declared to have been responsible for the death of Alexander Charles Cook, whose body was found beneath the Ford-street bridge New Year’s day, and whose funeral was held yesterday morning. Mrs. Cook declared yesterday that in no other way could she account for the mystery of her husband’s death.
The motive for suicide is found lacking; there is no conclusive evidence pointing to murder; an accident is virtually out of the question. The Ford street bridge is about 125 feet above the roadway, a height which might induce suicide in a man in a morbid frame of mind. Cook was the fourth person whose body has been found beneath “suicide bridge.”
Reconstructed, the theory of Cook’s death is as follows:
Desiring to look out over the city as the old year passed, Cook walked to the bridge, which is but a short distance from the Hill Hotel, where he had been staying, and while looking from there is supposed to have been overcome by melancholia.
Monetary troubles could not have been the cause of death by suicide, according to Mrs. Cook, who said yesterday morning that had Mr. Cook needed money a cable to his home would have brought $5000 as quickly as it could be sent. The domestic life of Mr. and Mrs. Cook was very happy, according to all that had known the couple, and Mrs. Cook asserted that he had been a devoted husband and father.
The funeral was held at the Dunning & McEntee chapel yesterday at 10 o’clock, with only a few intimate friends of the family present. The ceremonies, conducted by Rev. Levi Johnson, associate pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, were brief and simple.
Interment was in Riverview Cemetery.
[The Oregonian, 5 Jan 1915, p7; w/photo of widow attending service]
A. C. Cook Thought To Have Taken His Life In Fit of Melancholy.
Mrs. Cook Delares Family Life Was Happy and Money Could Be Had. Burial Services Are Simple.
Temporary insanity, induced by gazing from a dizzy height, is declared to have been responsible for the death of Alexander Charles Cook, whose body was found beneath the Ford-street bridge New Year’s day, and whose funeral was held yesterday morning. Mrs. Cook declared yesterday that in no other way could she account for the mystery of her husband’s death.
The motive for suicide is found lacking; there is no conclusive evidence pointing to murder; an accident is virtually out of the question. The Ford street bridge is about 125 feet above the roadway, a height which might induce suicide in a man in a morbid frame of mind. Cook was the fourth person whose body has been found beneath “suicide bridge.”
Reconstructed, the theory of Cook’s death is as follows:
Desiring to look out over the city as the old year passed, Cook walked to the bridge, which is but a short distance from the Hill Hotel, where he had been staying, and while looking from there is supposed to have been overcome by melancholia.
Monetary troubles could not have been the cause of death by suicide, according to Mrs. Cook, who said yesterday morning that had Mr. Cook needed money a cable to his home would have brought $5000 as quickly as it could be sent. The domestic life of Mr. and Mrs. Cook was very happy, according to all that had known the couple, and Mrs. Cook asserted that he had been a devoted husband and father.
The funeral was held at the Dunning & McEntee chapel yesterday at 10 o’clock, with only a few intimate friends of the family present. The ceremonies, conducted by Rev. Levi Johnson, associate pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, were brief and simple.
Interment was in Riverview Cemetery.
[The Oregonian, 5 Jan 1915, p7; w/photo of widow attending service]
Mental Lapse Blamed
A. C. Cook Thought To Have Taken His Life In Fit of Melancholy.
Mrs. Cook Delares Family Life Was Happy and Money Could Be Had. Burial Services Are Simple.
Temporary insanity, induced by gazing from a dizzy height, is declared to have been responsible for the death of Alexander Charles Cook, whose body was found beneath the Ford-street bridge New Year’s day, and whose funeral was held yesterday morning. Mrs. Cook declared yesterday that in no other way could she account for the mystery of her husband’s death.
The motive for suicide is found lacking; there is no conclusive evidence pointing to murder; an accident is virtually out of the question. The Ford street bridge is about 125 feet above the roadway, a height which might induce suicide in a man in a morbid frame of mind. Cook was the fourth person whose body has been found beneath “suicide bridge.”
Reconstructed, the theory of Cook’s death is as follows:
Desiring to look out over the city as the old year passed, Cook walked to the bridge, which is but a short distance from the Hill Hotel, where he had been staying, and while looking from there is supposed to have been overcome by melancholia.
Monetary troubles could not have been the cause of death by suicide, according to Mrs. Cook, who said yesterday morning that had Mr. Cook needed money a cable to his home would have brought $5000 as quickly as it could be sent. The domestic life of Mr. and Mrs. Cook was very happy, according to all that had known the couple, and Mrs. Cook asserted that he had been a devoted husband and father.
The funeral was held at the Dunning & McEntee chapel yesterday at 10 o’clock, with only a few intimate friends of the family present. The ceremonies, conducted by Rev. Levi Johnson, associate pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, were brief and simple.
Interment was in Riverview Cemetery.
[The Oregonian, 5 Jan 1915, p7; w/photo of widow attending service]
A. C. Cook Thought To Have Taken His Life In Fit of Melancholy.
Mrs. Cook Delares Family Life Was Happy and Money Could Be Had. Burial Services Are Simple.
Temporary insanity, induced by gazing from a dizzy height, is declared to have been responsible for the death of Alexander Charles Cook, whose body was found beneath the Ford-street bridge New Year’s day, and whose funeral was held yesterday morning. Mrs. Cook declared yesterday that in no other way could she account for the mystery of her husband’s death.
The motive for suicide is found lacking; there is no conclusive evidence pointing to murder; an accident is virtually out of the question. The Ford street bridge is about 125 feet above the roadway, a height which might induce suicide in a man in a morbid frame of mind. Cook was the fourth person whose body has been found beneath “suicide bridge.”
Reconstructed, the theory of Cook’s death is as follows:
Desiring to look out over the city as the old year passed, Cook walked to the bridge, which is but a short distance from the Hill Hotel, where he had been staying, and while looking from there is supposed to have been overcome by melancholia.
Monetary troubles could not have been the cause of death by suicide, according to Mrs. Cook, who said yesterday morning that had Mr. Cook needed money a cable to his home would have brought $5000 as quickly as it could be sent. The domestic life of Mr. and Mrs. Cook was very happy, according to all that had known the couple, and Mrs. Cook asserted that he had been a devoted husband and father.
The funeral was held at the Dunning & McEntee chapel yesterday at 10 o’clock, with only a few intimate friends of the family present. The ceremonies, conducted by Rev. Levi Johnson, associate pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, were brief and simple.
Interment was in Riverview Cemetery.
[The Oregonian, 5 Jan 1915, p7; w/photo of widow attending service]
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