New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-25
CRIMES AGAINST LIFE.

| ATTEMPTED AND SUCCESSFUL SUICIDE
| STRANGE SCENE AT THE ELEVATED RAILWAY STA
TIoS AT FIPTIETH-sT. AND sIxTH-AvE.-A YOUNG
WOMAN THROWS HsRsELF BEFORE TRAIN-A
sHIP-BRoKER TAKEs HIS OWN LIPE-THE SUP
POSED REASONS FOR THEcE ACTS.
A young woman named Hattie j. Hull, while
suffering from delirium caused by malaria,
threw herself on the track of the Sixth Avenue
Elevated Road yesterday, in front Of an ap-
preaching train. The engine and one car passed
over her. but it is thought that she will re-
cover from her injuries. A young ship broker
was found dead in his bed yesterday morning
in West Twenty -third-st. His accounts were
not in proper shape, and it is believed that
he took his own life.
JUMPING BEFORE AN ELEVATED TRAIN.
YOUNG WOMAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE WHILE DE-
'IIRIoUs FROM MAIARIA-sINGUIAR CONDUCT OF
HER COMPANION.
A handsome young woman stylishly dressed,
hastily entered the downtown station of the Ee-
waited Road at Fiftieth-st. and Sixth-ave. few
minutes before a. m. yesterday and intimating TO
the gateman that some one behind her would pay
her fare. as is customary for woman to do when
accompanied by escort she passed out to the plat
form. Her companion, man apparently fifty years
pexion. meanwhile stopped at the ticket agents
box, where he deposited 50-cent piece and asked
for two tickets. He was receiving the change when
q cry attracted his attention TO the platform.
southembound train was approaching, and
on the track about five six feet in
advance of it lay the young woman. Instantly
there were cres Of stop the train" but
the engineer could do nothing and to the horror Of
the spectators the yonng woman disappeared be-
meath the engine. The train ran half the length Of
the platform before it was stopped and then the
woman's body was wedged beneath the axle of the
first car.
AS as the train came TO n standstIll ON at
tempt was made TO extrcate the young woman
from her terrible position All expected to find her
badly crushed but although her clothing was badly
torn and her faco bruised and cut, serious injury
was at first perceptible. She had fallen between
the track and had escaped contact with the wheels.
She was carried into the wating-room, and Police
Surgeon Waterman and his son. Deputy Coroner
Waterman, who live near the station, were sum-
moncd. They found the girls hip broken and her
chest and back crushed. While they were
examining her she rcgained conscious
ness and when asked how the ac-
cident had happened exclaimed rather
savagy: Il intended to kill myself" She
said that her name was Hattie J. Hull and that she
was the daughter of Asa HUI, music teacher, who
Thither she was taken in an ambulance. Her parents
and friends refused TO speak of or explain the young
wCmans act when asked TO do so little later BY y
TRIBtSE reporter IL was learned, however, at the
office OF Superintendent Hahn, OF the Elevated Rail-
road Company that Miss Hulls companion had
suddenly disappeared while the young woman was
being carried into the waiting-room and that he
could not be found any where. He was recognized
by J. W Prince, dispatcher, as Norman ID. Samp-
s6n. who lived OF No. 3lS West Fourteenthst. a
short time ago. The landlady Of this house informed
the reporter that her former lodger was married
man and WAS intimate friend Of Miss ltulls. she
also said that he clerk in the Appraisers Once
Later in the day the reporter called on DIR. Fer
dinand Beach, Of No. 212 West Fortyhfth-st., who
has been Mr. Hull's family physician for many
| years. DIR. Beach said " Miss Hull has been sui-
| or so and for three days she was delirous. When
visited her yesterday Der derium seemed as bad as
| ever Her parents say that this morning, feeling
better she asked to be allowed 10 go out for walk
and visit ber sister. | should never have allowed
her 10 leave the house under the circumstances,
but her parents were evidently greatly
pleased Mt her apparent sudden recovery
that they let her go. The next time
heard of her was when she was brought homo
with bad bruises and disointed hip. Although her
delirm is as violent IL can be- entertain every
hone of her recovery. have not as yet been abla
to discover any internal injuries Cases OF attempted
suicide Oh the part of delirous people are very fire.
Colonel Hahn. in addition 10 closely nerrogating
all the witnesses of the affair, sent Dr. William
Shine 10 Mr. Iulls house to ascertain his daughters
condition. The doctor, however, was refused ad-
mttance.
SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A SlIlP-BROKER.