![John William Warde stands on the 17th floor window ledge of the Gotham Hotel as his sister begs him to come inside. Manhattan came to a standstill for eleven hours as twenty John William Warde stands on the 17th floor window ledge of the Gotham Hotel as his sister begs him to come inside. Manhattan came to a standstill for eleven hours as twenty](https://external-preview.redd.it/2fv8g6Qo1AAKEzPYBDc_svDR2AHWMWcisaEqKNT97WM.jpg?auto=webp&s=419a17ea38251d42a7c0840ea05a4b6275e0fa71)
John William Warde stands on the 17th floor window ledge of the Gotham Hotel as his sister begs him to come inside. Manhattan came to a standstill for eleven hours as twenty
![July 1938: Suicide at the Gotham Hotel, New York CIty John William Warde was a twenty-six-year-old native of Southampton, New... – @thats-the-way-it-was on Tumblr July 1938: Suicide at the Gotham Hotel, New York CIty John William Warde was a twenty-six-year-old native of Southampton, New... – @thats-the-way-it-was on Tumblr](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m74u817tsC1rrmirso1_640.jpg)
July 1938: Suicide at the Gotham Hotel, New York CIty John William Warde was a twenty-six-year-old native of Southampton, New... – @thats-the-way-it-was on Tumblr
![The body of John Ward, 26, lying in the street in front of the hotel Gotham, 55th Street and 5th Avenue, after his leap from the 17-floor ledge of the hotel, where The body of John Ward, 26, lying in the street in front of the hotel Gotham, 55th Street and 5th Avenue, after his leap from the 17-floor ledge of the hotel, where](https://preview.redd.it/v8552f3pygm81.jpg?width=498&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c94fa6c9197ccc69f67cca4fb929d8ee87daba9e)