Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-06
DEAD AND UNKNOWN.

An Unknown Woman Throws Her.
 self From a Housetop and Is In-
 stantly K1lled-The Body Lying in
 Bercin's Undertaking Rooms.
 An unknown woman about sixty years of age met with terrible death on Cottage place about o'clock yesterday afternoon, by jumping from the roof of the house owned by Amos $. Blake, while suffering from an attack of in sanity.
 The house where the terrible tragedy occurred is divided into tenements and is occupied by Wilson Futile and fam ilv, Mrs Lydia M. Upson, Mrs Smith, Misses Ann and Sarah Roberts. It is a three story building with high roof | rising at a sharp angle.
 Yesterday morning the Misses Roberts heard noise as of some one walking about | the garret of the house but paid no at | lection to the matter. In the afternoon the sounds were heard again and Mrs Upson and the Misses Roberts proceeded to investigate. When they entered the garret an old lady with hair disheveled, and almost naked rushed up to them.
 Mrs Upson although frighte ned asked the woman what she was doing in the house and ordered her to leave at once,
 when the latter replied in voice filled
 with terror:
 "O,good woman: don't say word and God will bless you.'
 Mrs Upson saw that the woman
 was not in her right mind
 and left the garret, going to the resi-
 dence @ of Amos s. Blake, the owner of
 the house. The latter was not at home
 and Mir Futile, who occupied the first floor of the house was notified. With Mrs Upson he at once went to the garret. At his approach the woman fled. MT
 Futile followed but before he was aware
 of her intentions she sprang upon table
 directly beneath the scuttle. For the
 first time MT Futile noticed that the
 window was open and with a frightened
 crv the woman clambered out upon the steep roof. For an instant she chung to
 the edge of the skylight and then slid to
 the ground a distance of more than
 thirty feet. In her descent the woman
 struck clothesline, breaking the pole
 to which it was attached. The unfortu-
 nate creature struck the ground upon her
 head and side and was dead when pick , ed up.
 Medical Examiner North was at once
 notified, and after hearing the facts de- cided that an inquest was unnecessary , The woman's neck was broken by the fall and death must have been instan- taneous. Her right arm was also frac- tured. there was bad cut on the fore
 head and one hand was cut. The body was removed to the undertaking rooms of Martin Bergin and has not been iden- , titied.
 It is believed that the woman slept in , the garret all night. Saturday afternoon , a woman answering her description
 called at the residence of l.. Bearlsley
 on Cottage phase, and pointing to the
 house whore the tragedy occurred asked
 if that was the town house. She was directed to the town farm and was seen
 no more by Mir Beardsley, and it is be-
 cho tn hn off dark and stole into the garret where she spent the night.
 t Her clothes were scattered around the room, and consisted of clean but we'll : worn underwear. a drab calico dress, a . black double shawl and a brown bonnet. I A boiled potato and slice of bread were | also found in the garret. The woman 5 was about five feet three inches in 5 height of slight build, with dark hair i streaked with gray. and nearly all of her t teeth were gone. She may have been sixty years of age. She was without v doubt insane. Her language would in- ] dicate that she was respectable and not temporary referred to the unfortunate z creature.
 Rev Dr Rowland of St Johns church.
 called at the undertaking rooms this , poon and identified the remains as those
 of an insane woman who called at his
 residence New Years day. 1t that time
 she said that Dr Rowland had given orders to have her throat cut, and beg
 ged of him to spare her. The reverend } gentleman succeeded in quieting her and she went away. She said she had
 friends in this city named Hendey and that she had recently been in Bridgeport to get possession of some money which belonged to her. To Dr ? Rowland's servant the woman said she , was not Catholic but had many friends among the followers of that religion. ) She was evidently an English woman.
 Dr Rowland is positive that the dead woman is the one who called at his house.
 On the other hand q string of rosary
 beads were to-day found in the garret
 where the woman passed Saturday
 night, and are believed to have belonged l to her. This would indicate that the ] unfortunate creature was Catholic.
 Two of the letter carriers, who viewed
 the remains this afternoon believe the } body is that of an old lady known as Meg Morrell, who lived alone in an old red house near the City Mills. } The selectmen have decided to allow } the body to remain oyer night i'll the un- ! dertakine rooms. To- morrow unless iden- titied, the remains will be buried. DR. c. ". FROST, 157 Bank street.