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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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Samuel Barnes Jr., a senior at Xavier University in New Orleans, was declared a suicide by police after jumping from the Huey Long Bridge into the Mississippi River. His body was recovered downstream two days later, with a note on his shirt denying his July New York trip contributed to the act.
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NEW ORLEANS (SAMP) Samuel Barnes Jr., senior at Xavier University, was declared a suicide by police after an alleged leap from the highest point on the Huey Long bridge into the Mississippi river. The leap was actually not witnessed but a shirt of the youth pinned to a steel girder bore a note which the youth said as his last letter. Two days after, the body of Barnes was taken from the river some distance below the bridge. Barnes had made a trip to New York in July in an effort to get on a Major Bowes program, and became ill while in the east. In his letter he declared the trip to New York had nothing to do with his suicide leap.
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New Orleans
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body recovered from mississippi river two days after leap; declared suicide by police.
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Samuel Barnes Jr., senior at Xavier University, allegedly leaped from the highest point on the Huey Long bridge into the Mississippi river; leap not witnessed, but shirt pinned to steel girder bore a note as his last letter; had trip to New York in July for Major Bowes program and became ill, but letter stated it unrelated to suicide.