[2] On Thursday 29 July 1954, Dohring fell 100 feet from the centre span of the Story Bridge to the Brisbane River below.

An officer on the freighter Daylesford heard the splash and dispatched two seamen in a ship's boat who dragged the unconscious Dohring from the water.

He suffered extensive injuries and was placed in an iron lung at the Brisbane General Hospital.

[3] When he recovered consciousness, he told police he must have blacked-out as he had no memory of the fall.

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