Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-10-01
EVENING STAR.
DOUBLE SHEET,


pEsPKRATK LEAP FRoN A FOURTa sroKv
wISDow-A STORY OF LOVE AND DsspArR.
About hslf-pRst ~ O'clock yesterday ~ b-nins.
a girl, giving the name OF Belle De Forest
threw herself from fourth story back window
OF ST. Johns restaurant, No. 81 North Charles
street, into the brick paved court below, q dis
tsace OF forty-fve feet. and received very Ne
ROSS injuries. The caasA OF the act Is SOME
what involved In mystery, Ese the antecsdeuts
and FORMER circumstances 81 the girl, but Il
believed to have resulted frOrn a morbid con-
ment.
IL seems that she had been in want. ard hsi
been permitted by Mrs. Valentine wife OF the
proprietor Of the house 70 occupy fourtf-stOry
room until she could do better. She WAS yester-
day notified that she would have to yscate hat
expressed nS surprise or regret. TIE windos
through which che made the descent was an
small that she hsdt o push herself through feet
foremost. A young Italian barber and hsr-
keeper heard her TALL, and ran out, 20 aud her
lying unconscious on the pavement. DIR. Atkin-
son was summoned, and she WAS conveyed to
the Washington University Hospital. Here It
was found by DIR. Reynolds thar no bones had
been broken, hut her back was badly praised,
and she WAS at times in dellrium.
on the table IN her room Wa found 4 letter
addressed TO q former student OF the MARYLAND
University Hospital, who IL now in Nes York
but who, she says, had correspondent with her
ahce his departure. The epistie was written
In delicate hand, ana inclOsei a flck of soft
brown hair. IL read a. follows:
September -, 1874 Dear VIII. .IudEe me not
too h2rshly. cannot live after that cruel iced.
1
VIII ask but one favor from YOU. the las. IN All
ever ask, see that | am buried properly I have
no ore TO seek this from but You. 'OL, II
could only see You once more would nor "a, ,r-
muir. GCOg-bye. darling. Sometime thIoL m
one who loved yOu-ioVed you TOO well on
cannot write any more. my hani trenlhlrs 80
= gam good-bye. lay own darling. and ask q q
10 forgive me. am ever yours, eVea in death
Belle DE Forest is the name printed on carl.
found in her room, and she has also been kno.rn
no la re a b,rg
lived IN Baltimore. She L. of medium heiyht
eighteen years Of age, though lOoklny older. has
large hazel eyes, Light brOsn hair and T. pretty.
She has undoubtedly had a hard lot IN Iifs Her
Intelligence IL quick and her conversation gDot
She Is very reueent in regard TO her aatece-
cents and will only say that her parents were
French; her father was Killed in the late civil
war; her mother died of consumption soon after
ward that her early life was spent in Rich
mond, Va, but lstterly she had lived in Pitts.
purg, Pa. She Saws she broke her arm while
coming from Pittsburg TO Baltimore: was taken
10 the Maryland University Hospital where she
lest her heart with young student. After
confectionery store on Lexington street: then
as nurse with Mrs. Trmble, on Saratoga street
which she left, being too lsborious, and found
shelter At the st. Johns restaurant
The reporter saw her after she hsd been re-
stored TO consciousness. She was weeping very
bitterly, and said: "Why will not the psopie
allow me room in this world 20 earn an honest
livelihood? God knows have tried hard 10 hear
this worlds sufierings and to be as good d anv
OF my sex, but de also knows IA AZ where have
trusted have been deceived, and that where /
thought mere lived honor and manhood there
was nothing but evil seldshness." During this
outburst, spoken in sObs, but very earnestly the
tears followed each other down her Cheeks and
growing more earnest she raised her rounded
white arm and shaking the partly closed hand
continued: 81 have never yet met a woman tn At
would pity or help me, nor have 1 found one
man who acted with honor 20 wards me. Do Won
know that l have LAID upon a sick ba1 month
alter month without any one to give me water
except craved it, Yes, I want TO die, and /
viii die, although IL seems fate is against nv
wishes. Last week tOek one hundred aud FORTY
grains OF hydrate of choral, but it did not seem
TO hurt me, and now am alive vet" l. ast night
she was easier and less vehement. DIR. REYNOLDS
THINKS she VIII soon recover.-Balt. Sun, lei.