The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-05-09
INTO THE Deep!
The Hungry Nav of the Raging Mis-
souri, Claims Another Un-
fortunate.
An Unknown Suicide From the Rail-
road Bridge Over Five
Nile Creek.
INTO THE DEEP.

INTO THE DEEP.
The Missouri riyer-that tomb OF many an
unfortunate-was the recipient Of another
| victim yesterday morning, but who she was
or what she was, where she came from or
where she intended to 60, what she had been
| or what she might have been, whether saint
or sinner, Magdalene or Madonna, wife or
mistress, servant or lady, Is unknown.
Yesterday morning, between and O'Clock,
a strange woman was seen standing upon the
little railroad bridge which spans Five-mile
creek, at its entrance into the river. No par
ticular notice was taken of her, when, all at
once
SHE sPRASG INTO THE RIVER
and after few desperate struggles, as il to
save herself, she sank in a whirling eddy and
was seen no more. A man named Dan
Goodrich, who was standing on the railroad
track not far from her at the time she made
the fatal leap, ran at once to the spot, but she
was sinking for the last time and he saw that
It was useless to make any attempt to save
her from the wstery grave she had courted.
Ihe alarm was instantly given and q num-
Der OF men at once set TO work to drag along
the banks, but the river being very high
and swift the effort was abandoned after an
hour or 80 had been spent in the search. A
man named Greasy, living on Seneca street,
between Seventh street and Broadway, saw
her make
THE FATAL PLUNGE,
but was too far away to reader any aid. Sew
eral Others were in the neighborhood, but
none knew who she was or where she came
from. She was plainly, in fact poorly dress
ed. and her appearance indicated that she be-
UaI fa he ala .t,a
sought the grave as a relief from domestic
trouble; whether 1t was the old story of wo-
mans trust and mans perfidy; a bIighted
life with no hope for the future; q sudden
impulse or the result of deliberate premedi-
tation, or whether one who had drank deep
of the bitter dregs OF life's cup, remains hid
den with those o'her numerous mystic
ries which lie buried deep in the bosom Of
the dark-rollins Missouri.
WHO WAS SHE?
As none OF those who saw the rash act
could give any Information as to the identity
of the poor unfortunate, a TIMES representa-
tive undertook TO ferret out something,
which might throw some light on the sub |
ject, and acting upon a clue furnished by a |
police officer, to the effect that he had under
stood that the suicide was the wife OF a man
living in South Leavenworth, said man hay-
ing two or three helpmeets, anyone OF whom |
he could discard without the formality of a |
divorce, the reporter plunged into the dark |
ness surrounding that portion of the city |
lying south Of the Three-mile creek, and |
made his way over sidewalks, which sported |
three cross-boards 10 the block, down dreary |
alleys infected with miasma and infested /
with loose drays and looser gullies, through |
streets ungraded and unsidewalked,
MAKING INQUIRIES
at every available point, but not missing /
woman could he hear of. South Ueaven-
worth, taken as a whole, is the most beauti-
fnl portion OF the city, but at night there are
some portions the darkness Of which would
throw Erebus into the shade, and those were
the portions through which the reporter
made his way. Some had heard OF the sui
eide and some hadn't; some were wise upon
the subject and some wanted to know all
about it; some thought they knew who 1t
was, but couldn't tell exactly where she had
lived, while the majority of those interrogat-
ID had heard of the fact that q woman had
drowned herself, but that was all they knew.
When the Missouri gives up its dead, then
probably the mystery may be solved-but
not till then.