The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-04
,HE JUMPED so FEET.
N,s Keeney Thought Her Hus-
band Was Being Murdered
PLUNGED through a Window to a
Brick Paved Yard.
. s,,ght Scratch the Only Injury
Sustained.

Mrs. Annie Keeney, OF liz East one
unndred and Eighth street, narrowly
..caped death just after midnight this
,ornins, when, after scrambling over
.ippery roofs. jumping on fire-escapes
nd lodging in windows, she jumped
t,om A window in the fourth story TO
a, brck-paved yard. The only injury
.bs sustained we're two slight cuts on
n, face, so insignificant that medical
aid was unnecessary.
Mrs. Keeney is the wife Of John
E,.ney. a bricklayer. She is twenty
three years old, and has been married
df years The police say she was ad-
Acted 10 drink, but that she stopped
drinking so suddenly that her mind
vas affected. Keeney says his wife does
not drink to excess.
.'she drinks Just about the same as
ether people" said he. but. say, 1
think shs takes too much ice water"
Mr.. Keeney was not at home last
nieht Perhaps that Is why Mrs.
Eteuey suddenly became possessed Of
the Idea that he Was being murdered
down in the street. She put on her sky
blue wrapper. went out into the hall
ana Crtpt up tht " tIt ToDl.
There was drizzling rain and the
roofs we're slippery. but Mrs keeney
walked along over protecting ratings
Ind jagged party walls until she was on
the roof of l2S Hast One Hundred and
Eighth street. The next house further
llong Is nine feet lower, and she jumped
hown in safety. The wall of the adjoin-
ng house lowered far above her, and she
toud neither advance nor retreat.
She went to the front of the roof and
looked ovsr. II was good seventy-five
beet to the street. Then she went TO the
back OF the roof. Fifteen feet down
has the top floor fre-escspe. Another
minute and Mrs. Keeney was Hanging
J! her hands from the caves. She hung
khere for an instant and then dropped
10 the fre-escape and landed within a
lsS 9'chss OF the opening for the ladder;
Through 6 window into the rooms of
Rsmuel Schmichler. She put 'one OF
Per cold, wet hands on MIS-. schmichler's
|sste' who woke up with the idea that
Eratbtns hold 81 her husbands hair.
Schrtftehler a~oke, caught one glance
y the hgure standing by the bed, and
Now" said Mrs. Keeney. soothingly,
fdon,,t get eteited. My husband is being
murdered. lust give me glass Of
Mr., Schumacher didn't understand the
kituat ion at all, but he concluded he had
better DO az objected. so he brought
Now" said the woman, Just put
little brandy In the water"
"fhis Is no saloon" answered Mr.
Without a word Mrs. Keeney jumped
M n a vnyip
20 the one she came I'm through and
|vte!e there was no fre-escape.
Theirs! There! There!" she screamed.
Ne blood on his face. and the Knife Elm in
Che would have jumped out of the
window then. but the schmichlers,
mere Ne Was fierce struggle. Mrs. Keen "s,
ey fought hard, but the Schmichlers
eyerpo wered her and held her down on
khe floor. She was painting, and her
Ehe was quiet, and the Schmichlers
thousht she might remain SO long
'.nough for them to 90 for the neigh
When they released their hold on Mrs.
Kseney she sprang from the floor and
xah Wild cry plunged headlong from
The schmichlers looked out and saw
rar yard and fall heavily on the brick
pryement. Down the stairs they ran
and out into the yard. Mrs. Curdy, the
hnItress, was sitting there with her sick
child. She was badly frightened, too.
where's her body?" asked Mrs
echmicher.
II was some little time before Mrs.
cTdy could explain. ,u,, ,,., Aha
ar and landed just alongside Of her and
we child, Just one more turn of her
ssSay and she. would have, fallen on
,asH;: Then she had bounded UP and
IN into the house. Mrs Curdy thought
ge police ought to, be called in., SO she
ssnt her son, who quickly brought
Houndsman Stephenson.
AFTER long search he found Mrs.
keeney hiding in the cellar. There was
slight scratch on her head. That was
tse only injury she received from her
plunge OF sixty feet to the brick-paved
arc. An ambulance surgeon examined
az and said she did not require medical
Mrs. Keeney was taken to Yorkville
r2Iee Court this morning. Her daugh-
.r Mary. twenty-five years old. was
present at the hearing.
her mother. she said, had acted
nurssngely for several, days past She
nso burned her bank book, end the
oank IN which the money Is deposited
- not known. Not long ago she burned
sum Of money.
Justice Mcmahon committed her to
peilevue Hospital for examination into
"er mental condition.