Because his love was unrequited, Herr Heimerzinger, a German on his way to the Orient from South America, threw himself overboard, according to the captain of the Ginyo Maru, which reached Yokohama yesterday. Herr Heimerzinger, who was 27 years of age, conceived a great passion for an American lady on the same vessel. Being the only two first-class passengers, they were thrown very much in each other's company, life on an ocean liner, with its inevitable promiscuousness, bringing about haphazard meetings. On two occasions, Herr Heimerzinger sought to end his life, a letter in his cabin declaring that, since the lady passenger had not reciprocated his attentions, life was not worth living. On both these occasions, his efforts to seck a watery grave were thwarted by officers and members of the crew, but, though under surveillance, he managed to
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