Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-27
ABOUT GEORGETOWN
A Young Girl Attempts sdioideby Leaping
From the Aqueduot Bridge
She II Rescued ard Taken to the
Emergency HOspital-Cause Of Her
Rash Act - Other Items.

height young GIRL scarcely more than
seventeen. Jumped from the AquedHet
bridge to the river below, 3 distance of
hearty sixty feet. The act was committed
with suicidal intent. The girl was Flora
Smith. q native Of Lombardy, Ontario. who
II nurse in the family of Capt. Foote Of
the ninth infantry, who Is stopping at an
uptown hetel. She climbed over the rail-
ing Of the bridge near the third pier from
the Virginia end. hung by her hands fer q
moment and then. with scream, let go.
Just at that moment the little passenger
boat Bartholdi, which runs between George
town and the gambling places above the
Three Sisters, shot under the bridge. Her
captain heard the scream and looked out.
He saw the woman fall and the next mo-
ment heard the splash as she struck the
water. He understood the situation ut q
glance and set about to effect O rescue.
The night was intensely disagreeable ind
the work was unusually hard, but finally
accomplished. The dripping woman vas
Robt Cumberland and carried to the boat
house at the foot of 32d street There she
was given whisky to warm her up, and dry
clothes were furnished by resident OF the
vicinity.
The Cause of Her Rash Act.
In snatches. and after considerable ques-
tioning, the cause for the rash act was
gated through the apparent Indifference Of
q man she loved-W. F. Daugherty, q men,
Der Of the band at Fort Myer, whom she
had met in New York at one of the military
stations there. Last night, as stormy as 1t
was, she consented to take drive with
him, Il being not convenient and In some
manner embarrassing to have him at the
hotel Daugherty took her away In closed
carriage. He drove to Georgetown and
over the AQueduct to Rosslyn. There he
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sisted upon her drinking. She refused abb
solutely. she claims. Daugherty, drank
considerably. became dsagreeable and
his continued Indifference, and 1t affected
her. She cried and wept convulsively.
Daugherty in the meantime had taken 30
much that he fell into drunken sleep.
Then the girl left him, requesting woman
who was in the room to tell him upon
awakening that she had gone forever. She
passed through the greater part or the
dark miserable gambling town to and on
the bridge, stopping over the third pier.
She did not notice the Bartholdi coming
when she let go Of the bridge moor. she
screamed, she says, not to attract atten-
ton. 1t was only at the horrible tnouBht
OF what was coming.
she Wanted to Die.
sba WAS not pleased with her rescue.
She wanted to die, and cried piteously all
the way to the boat house. where she was
landed. There officer Lyddane did much
for her comfort and sent her to the Emer-
gency Hospital. Her employer, Capt. Foote
was summoned to the girls bedstde. His
presence very perceptibiy confused her. She
seemed then to have been ashamed or what
she had DONE and burst out crying again.
The girl, to the captains knowledge. had
never drank anything. He blames Daugh-
erty severely and will look to his punish
ment.
Goodman Sent to tho Penitentinry.
7 fhn
keeper of the High View; Hotel, at the end
Of the Chain BRIDGE, Ttos. A. Goodman.
was yesterday tried at Alexandria and sem
fenced to two years In the penitentiary.
He was convicted of assault and battery
with intent to kill. Several residents Ct
Geo. etown testified as to the assault. 1t
will be remembered that on March 81 Good
man, while violently intoxicated forced his
way into the sleeping apartment OF Law
renee and slashed him terribly across the
face neck and breast with a long, keen.
peculiarly shaped kitchen knife. Lawrence
Jumped up and grappled with his assallant,
and at the first opportunity fed. Goodman
pursued him to the kitchen, and there in
fiicted more wounds with the knife. Final
ly he got from the grasp OF the slasher, and
for weeks lay on the verge OF death In
the meantime Goodman came toGeergetown
and was arrested The Alexandria county
authorities came over and made arrange
ments to get him within their Jurisdiction.
While in the Georgetown cell Goodman act
ed violently. He butted his head against
the iron door, infiicting upon himself
wounds. and at night attempted to cut his
throat with his tin prison drinking cup.
which he twisted and broke so as to expose
the edges. Neither attempt was effective.
He has been out of prison since the first
day or two succeeding the assault on $500
bail
MIR. Mitchell Returns Home.
Mr.. Braith Mitchell of 1915 31st street.
Georgetown. in whose hands was the
weapon that accidentally went of on Sum
day last at Snowden Hall, near Laurel. and
infiicting a wound which resulted on Christ
ms day IN the death of Miss Bessie Snow
den, a widely popular lady of that section.
has returned to his home here. The DEATH