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The two Wall Street leaps that did take place, however, were dramatic
enough to sustain the myth. On Nov. 5, Hulda Borowski, a clerk who'd
been working at a Wall Street stock brokerage house for 28 years,
leapt off a 40-story building. On Nov. 16, three days after the market
had taken another dive, G.E. Cutler, the head of a produce firm,
climbed onto the ledge of his lawyer's office. The New York Times
reported that an attorney struggled to pull the frantic Cutler inside,
to no avail:
For a moment the men fell apart, then Mr. Cutler lunged over the edge.
[The attorney] seized the tails of his coat, but his grip broke.
Cutler's body crashed on to an automobile with New Jersey license
plates parked near the junction of Wall, Pearl and Beaver Streets, and
bounded to the pavement.
In the week following the 1987 stock-market crash, at least two
suicides in the United States were linked to the crisis, but none
involved a window plunge. (One of the incidents was a murder-suicide
in which a distraught investor in Miami killed a Merrill Lynch
executive and then himself.) There were also rumors that the Pacific
Stock Exchange had asked Golden Gate Bridge officials to be on alert
for jumpers, but the stock exchange denied the claim.
enough to sustain the myth. On Nov. 5, Hulda Borowski, a clerk who'd
been working at a Wall Street stock brokerage house for 28 years,
leapt off a 40-story building. On Nov. 16, three days after the market
had taken another dive, G.E. Cutler, the head of a produce firm,
climbed onto the ledge of his lawyer's office. The New York Times
reported that an attorney struggled to pull the frantic Cutler inside,
to no avail:
For a moment the men fell apart, then Mr. Cutler lunged over the edge.
[The attorney] seized the tails of his coat, but his grip broke.
Cutler's body crashed on to an automobile with New Jersey license
plates parked near the junction of Wall, Pearl and Beaver Streets, and
bounded to the pavement.
In the week following the 1987 stock-market crash, at least two
suicides in the United States were linked to the crisis, but none
involved a window plunge. (One of the incidents was a murder-suicide
in which a distraught investor in Miami killed a Merrill Lynch
executive and then himself.) There were also rumors that the Pacific
Stock Exchange had asked Golden Gate Bridge officials to be on alert
for jumpers, but the stock exchange denied the claim.