New-York tribune., 1882-08-12
PUSHED IN FRONT OF an ENGINE
DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN.

DEATH OF lOUNG WOMAN.
SIZE ASSERTED THAI SHE WAS THRoWA ON TO TIKI
TRACK OF TIE ELEVATED ROAD BY MAN
DYING AT THE HOSPITAL.
JulIan stburrer. of No. 333 East Sixtieth-St.,
while on a sixth Avenue Elevated Railroad train
Just leaving the Fiftieth-st station at p.
III. last night young woman
lump of the platform of the station on the
down town side directly in front of the engine OF
an approaching train. When Mr.. Suburger arrived
at Ftrv-eIghth-st he had word at once te!egraphed
n the station below of what he had witnessed.
The dispatch stated that the young woman
had iunped off the upper end of the station Search
was at once made bu5 nothing was found on the
track neither had anyone az the station seen any
one inInp off the platform. Patrick Hennessey, of
IA o13 Sixth-ave a conductor Oft duty. who
NJ the station, assisted in the search
and examined the track carefully. He too was IN
sncce ,slul and word sent 10 the upper station
that no one could be found on the track 1t was
thought then that the first telegram was
hoax, when Mr. subur-er arrived at
the station with Policeman Van Cott,
of the second Precinct, and despite the in
creduhty of the stauOn-men, demanded a careful
search of the rracR. 4 second investigation was
begun by Mr. StIburgeT, the officer, and tue railway
emp,Oyes. They walked aiong the track from the
upper TO the lower end of the station, and about
twenty feet below this they saw the body OF
woman. she lay between the TWO tracks she had
apparrn III been pushed along some sixty lert or
morr . the engine which struck her. The track
before he station Is closely boarded, which rendered
tins possible. strange 10 say, the young woman
was CONSCIOUS though unable to move, and too weak
to make al outcIy. She was picked up ana taken
10 The station. There she had sIength enough 10
say that her name julia i. Auyitt, an thdt she
lived at NO. 90 last Observation-Disclosures
uluth-st she SAID that she was servant glrl
twenty years old and Irisn. Being asked
If she wished priest to be called she replied that
she was PrOtes ant Ine young woman appeared
to be badly Injured about che head, as her scalp was
bleeding considerably. Sue complained Ot severe
pam Ia the spine
An ambulance was summoned and she was taken
10 the Roosevelt Hospital. All that she replied thele
TO Inquiries OF the mousse surgeon was th@t one
man or two men had pushed her oil the
DIatloru On learning this the surgeon asked no
more questions. lie discovered thaI she was con
,Idera9iv mi lrcd about the sJlne. The wound on
th4 head was also serious. she dled al the hoSplt4
al lZ.2O.
At the Fiftieth-st. station, W. ID. schultz,
the gateman SAID that no one there saw
Hiss Advitt jump from The plat
form or anyone push uer. No one there saw any,
thing of the occurrence. People were conn Z ahu
gong aud 40 attention was attracted TOW ara tue
Young woman. several trains passed the station
aft.r llr S-lOurgcr saw the occurrence ana before
sae WAS found, ye. no engineer 81" l he woman De-
tween the tracks. IL /. evident that tue engineer
OF me tram winch struck her aud not observe nel.
Her collar stained with blood. was found near inc
outer rail- after she had been removed.