The Ouachita Telegraph - Henry Lloyd Drowns Self and Child
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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, May 24, 1878
Page 1, Column 5

A STRANGE LEAP
[New Orleans City Item]

        This morning, at a quarter past ten o’clock, a man named Henry Lloyd, a
native of Bristol, England, residing at No. 418 Chippewa street, was seen going
toward the river with a child in his arms.  Arriving at the Wharf, between
Philip and Jackson streets, he jumped overboard, still clinging to the child.

        A young boy named Theodore Richter noticing Lloyd’s fatal jump into the
river, attempted to rescue him or the child, but all his efforts proved
fruitless.  Richter picked up in the river the unfortunate man’s hat and a blue
veil which was wrapped around the child.  The launch of the United States
monitor Canonicus attempted to rescue them, but also failed.

        Lloyd, in jumping over, held the child under him, with face downwards,
no doubt to make its suffering as brief as possible.

        Mrs. Lloyd, the deceased’s wife, called at the Sixth Station, and
identified the hat and veil.  The child was three months old.  The cause
attributed for the rash act is want of employment and lack of money to pay
arrears in rent.