The evening world., 1889-01-19
TO INSTANT DEATH.
Mrs. jennie Harris Jumps from a
Window at the Woman's Hospital.
1t Was Fifty-five Feet Down to
the Stones She Fell Upon.
A Strange Case of Suicide In the Early,
Moonlit Morning.

In the early hours of this morning, before
moonlight had given place to dawn, Mrs.
Jennie Harris, II patient in the Woman's
Hospital, Forty-ninth street and Fourth ave-
nue., committed suicide by leaping from n
window ON the top loor TO the street areaway,
Efty-tive feet below.
She struck on her back and was instantly
killed.
Mrs. Harris was the mother Of five children.
She was admitted 20 the hospital Jan. . suf-
fering from II female compliant of an ordinary
nature and was placed i'll a ward on the top
floor.
She remained in her ward, resting quietly,
until last Monday, when IN operation was
performed. IL was n simple one. and no i'll
effects resulted. After the operation she was
put to bed, and so rapidly did she improve
that her discharge from the institution would
have been only the matter of a week.
DIR. Grant Baldwin, the house surgeon, WIS.,
tied her last night just before midnight, and
found her resting quietly. She had IA slight
fever, but otherwise she was in excellent con-
dition.
At .. 30 o'clock this morning. the nurse,
Mrs Mary Carson, who WIS III charge of tho
ward. nude n tour of the place and found
Mrs. Harris with her eyes closed, apparently
asleep.
The nurse walked on from bed to bed, until
she arrived ut the other end of the ward.
Suddenly she heard a cry. She turned
around, aud was startled at seeing the form
of n woman clad only III her NIGHT clothes,
running towards a small room adjoining tho
ward.
The nurse was fully twenty-five feet away
mt the time, but she run IA fast as she could
towards the fleeing woman. The latter only
had n few steps to 90. and the nurse reached
the door Just in time to see her raise the slsh
and throw herself out OF the window.
'Il.. nItt.r of thA roof - nj ont .tullantt
inches below the window. The suicide sid
over this and Went shooting down to her
death.
In he mean time the greatest excitement
prevailed i'll the ward. The pat. ents had
been awakened by the scream, and the nurses
had hard work i'll quoting them.
.Supt. A., II, Leroy was sent for, and he ar
rived n little later.
When tie attendants got to the SPOT where
the woman's body had fallen, they found her
eyes wero partly open, while blood, issuing
from her mouth and nose, trickled dow over
her white clothing and formed II pool near
her head.
The window from which she jumped was
on the Fiitieth street side of the building
and the third from Lexington avenue. 1t
can only be opened for II space of about fiji.
teen inches, and the woman had to squeeze q
little to get through.
The arenway is paved entirely with stone.
1t runs along the side of the building toI
about forty feet and is -four feet wide.
Supt. Leroy and Drs. Grant Baldwin and
Arthur S. Bird notified the East Fiity-frst
street police.
Officer Franklin removed the body TO the
dead-house, and the suicides family was
notified. She leaves five children and Il
husband, who live Mt 242o Eighth avenue.
The hosp tal authorities say that al her
Mrs. Harris was out of her mind when she
quiet with the deliberate intention to make
away with herself.