New-York tribune., 1882-08-13
The DEATH OF JULIA ALDHA US.
SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN AN ACCIDENT.

THE DEATH OF JULIA ALDHA US.
SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN AN ACCIDENT
INVESTIGATION By THE COKONER-TALK WITH
BROTHER or THE DEAD WOMAN,
The death of Julia AldhauS, OF No. 30 East one
hundrcd-and- twcnty-niuth-st.. who was struck by
a train on the Sixth-ave. Elevated Railroad at the
Fiftieh-st. station on FRIDAY night, was inEyest-
gated both by the police and the railroad officials
Yesterday. No evidence was adluced to saDstan-
tate Miss Adhaus s statement that she had been
pushed upon the herr, track m IN 'front.' o ot "a "a
snow that her death was due to msst"p
or fail which IN her excited and nervous condition
prccIpitated her III front of an Approaching triln.
II in probable that she was rolled over INTO the
space between the tracks, and port on OF her
clothing catching upon one OF the projecting corners
OF the locomotive engine she was dragged along
some distance After the injured woman had Deeh
taken to the hospital 1t was found tha6 she was y
ing She was suffering from fracture of the spine
and internal INJURIES but their cAact nature IL was
impossible to discover on account OF her low cohdl-
ton She did not respond to the attempts 10 revive
her. but gradually sank and died OF shock Alter her
arrival sine was asked by two OF the House sur
geOus how she met with her injuries. 10 DOtn she
stated that she had been pushed from the platform
of the station by two men. Never. heleS5 she
was in snch an exhausted coalition that
her statements could not BE- relied upon.
Notice was sent to tine Coroner but Aer speedy
death prevented the taking OF any ante-mortem
deposition. Word was teegraphed to her house,
No. 90 East One-hundred- twenty nlatn-st,
aud about o'clock the brother OF the woman,
SO overcome that he merely ldentlhcd the body as
that of his sister Julia, said few oIeceht words
and went away. Coroner Merllle took charge OF
the case, and his deputy Dr. Aleo5cuner,
examined the body yesterday afternoon,
and found that death haI been cause
Inv a shock resulting from tIree scalp wounds. AMI
fractures OF the ninth and tenth ribs compression
of the spinal cord and resulting par'plc2Ia. BE-
sides these injuries, the nghJ hDuId ana ciaVicie
were also ac,ured."
Frederic Aldhaus the brother of the young wo-
man. said yesterday to a TRIBUNE reporter that he
had not the slightest douDD buJ tuat MS sistcrs
death vas the result OF an ACCIDENT ohc was ol
nervous temperament, BUT III robust health There
was no reason why she should DC IN tbe least de,
snnndrnt or think of committing suicide. She mad
lust returned from live weeks soonrn III the cOun-
try and had been back IN this clty only ieW d.yS.
Size had been with the rcst of ncr family m PIKE
Comfy Pennsylvania Miss Aldndus, continued
her brother, was only niue over twenty years ou
She came 10 tins country from England over eleven
wears ago. she mad never been lnuch IN the company
of any man, nor had she ever COMPLAINED oil being
aunoyed by the attentions OI anyDOuy she WAS III
ployed steadily by drcssnaAer III Lalai iette-ace
She had erythIug that 5ne desired In the oIape O
clothing and mad plenty OF money TO supply al
! reasonable wants. Her orotier was very conhdeht
that she had not been murdered or Ocen ma 20 the
victim of any conspiracy. She hah started dO"n
town on Friday night 10 Nlslu sOhlc dC41dihtdhCeS
whom She had not seen tor long time Dy reason or
her absence III the country. returning uptown
- I'll 80 nm the wrong stairs and gOJ on the
down Town platform when she wished 10 20 20 llar-
fem Nervous and excited by her eVlden mistake,
sh. stepped upon the raised narrow platform. =,
II
contInneI MIR Auldhaus - III endeaYOrlug 10 get
Good u0stion to get the tram and Dalleycd that
she was pushed. The tram, coming along rapidly
naturally would add 10 her excitement, ana she
must have slipped on to the track or attempted %
cross over to the uptown platform Ihe platforms
must have been dark, for none OF the employees OF
the Elevated railroad could Dc found who saw tAe
occurrence Ii could not even DC ascerUlned what
was The number OF the train, or VINO was the en-
gineer the conductor or the. Drakc!neh. Inc tact
fhat there was no evidence Or crushing beyond the
brnIsing that would result from being dragged
along Oh the track Is pretty stToug evidence thit
she was not struck by the moving tIaln she prob
ably fell across the srlnger ana Oelhg caught was
dragged along and rolled over ana over alongside
Of the track.
prostrate ner completely. | was sitting up waiting
! ior NV sister to return wondering why sae was so
| Iate for It was her rule 80 be Ut home before 10
! O'clock every night, when the AWFUL Telegram
! came announcing the accident.
! Ihe funeral, which viii be private will he held
| tins afternoon, ana the mterment Is TO be in
! of the st. Jamcs's Methodist Episcopal Church III
/ Madison-aye between One-hundrod-and- twenty
/ six n and Observation-Disclosures y-scVcnth-sts.
| The suDerlutcndant of the Roosevelt Hospital,
where the young woman taken, stated yestcr-
| day that ne wa, utterly unable to account Tor the
| delay Oh Friday night IN sending the ambulance
| c1Il to the hospital officer Van
Cott of the Forty y-seyenth Street station,
had been summoned soon after the n n
| iurrd woman had been discovered. lie
could have sent call by the nearest
fire alarm box, and this would nave been
| received aud responded 10 wlthn three minutes.
Instead OF this, the officer went to the Forty
seventh Street station and sent the call over the
police wires. As 1t was, the record III Roosevelt
! Hospital showed that the ambulance call was re-
celyed there at $3.50 o'clock At $40, or IN ten
minutes afterward, the ambulance was AZ tho
| Elevated Railroad station aud III 9:0J the ln-
| iured woman was brought into the hospital.
| Wien the ambulance surgeon returned to
tho hospital he complained OF the dImcuIty
! be had experienced in securing assistance
70 remove the woman. Nobody volunteered
10 assist hn lac said, amt he had to ask the police
men Twice before they started TO help hlnl.
| Many passengcTs on the sixth Avenue Elevated
RaIroad yesterday, while changing cars at
! tIttietn-st stopped and glzed at the
| nI1ce where he accident had occurred.
it was at the Fifteth Street Station also nat Miss
Hull sought to end her life httlc more than year
ago. Although the trachmen began dI an carry hour
no remove all traces of che tragedy, portions OF the
girls hair were scattered along Oh the guard
! rails at noon, and the boards between the tracks
| were slained in many places with her blood.