New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-12
HEADLONG FROM A WINDOW.
MISS JEwETTS SUICIDE AT THE WINDSOR
HOTEL.
SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF CHARLES =
JEwErr. FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF THE
JEwETT WHITE LEAD COMPANY
AN INVALID FOR YEARS.

JEWETT WHITE LEAD COHfAcf
AN INVALID FOR YEARS.
Miss Alice Jewett the cny daughter q
Charles H. Jewett, plunged headlong from the
window Of her room on the second hoor OK
the Windsor Hotel about o'clock yesterday
morning and was dashed to death on the stone
Tagging below. The circumstances In connection
with her death are peculiarly sad. In the roo"
with her at the time that she jumped 10 ner
death was her mother who made heroic but IN
effectual efforts TO stop her. Her mad act was
no doubt due to temporary insanity, as every
circumstance seems to substantiate that theory.
It could hardly have been premeditated, as only
short time before she had been In apparently
good spirits and talked nationally. There Is no
reason whatever that can be assigned for ner
suicide. except that she became insane and was
not responsible for her act.
MISS JEwETT WAS AN INVALID
Miss Jewett lived with her parents on staten
Island Her father. Charles H. Jewett, was
formerly president Of the Jewett White Lead
Company but is retired. She has ono
brother, Edward II. Jewett, who is broker at
No rs Broad-st. Both her father and her
brother are members OF the Down Town
Association The family have lived at New
Brighton Staten Island, but Mrs. Jewett and
her daughter had been at the Windsor Hotel
for some days previous to the young womans
death Mss Jewett had been in poor health for
q long time Her disorder was OF nervous
character, and at the time Of her death her
mother was making arrangements to take her to
Vermont for the benefit that would be derived
from a change of air.
While at her home on Staten Island, MISS
Jevett was under the care OF DR.. william @
Walser of Livingstone, Staten Island. He o.
vised a change, and her father decided to take
her to a hotel in the mountains near Manchester.
VT. The house on Staten Island was closed up
last week and the family came to New-fork ana
went to the Windsor to live until such tine as
Mr.. Jewett could arrange his business aHairs 80
that he could leave town. Rooms were assigned
TO them on the second floor In the back Tnese
rooms overlooked the Central Railroad tracks
and the courtyard which is paved with stone
tagging. In order to be near ner daughter, MIS-.
Jewett occupied the same room with her MISS
Jewetts symptoms were peculiar. but II Is SAID
that no one ever dreamed that she contemplated
violence 10 herself She would sit at the window
for long periods Of time, and the trains running
an the Central tracks seemed to have fascina-
ton for her. Then she would become extremely
nervous. She was morose and brilliant by turns.
Her friends were unable to understand her
moods. She was in her twenty-ffth year, ana
bod all her life been more or less troubled with
nervous complaints.
IN GOOD SPIRITS SATURDAY NIGHT.
Saturday afternoon. accompanied by her
mother and father. she took drive through
Central Park The drive seemed to do her
wonderful amount OF good. and she chatted and
laughed with her parents. Upon returning TO
the hotel she continued To talk brightly. and all
evening her mother was congratuIaring herseu
that her child was much better. The family re.
fired early and apparently Miss Jewett slept
we'll AS 1t was an excessively WARM ihs"'' INV
windows in the rooms were left open.
Mrs JeWett wakened about o'clock YESTERDAY
morning and Immediately got up she cane!
her daughter, who responded al one my .i,a %
only a few words conversation during the 'nis
thai Mrs Jewett dressing Miss Jewett dio
not make any move toward dressing nerseH' uue
sat around the room IN her neherooe' aon.
mother having completed her toilet Went GOWN
stairs To the telephone, and called up Dr aiser'
on Staten Island. She told him tna' ner uausn'
ter wac much improved ana tnat tney were see-
ting ready to take train on the New fork Ceh-
,ra1 railroad TO 60 to the mountains She then
went to the dining-room and ordered ina. p'eaN-
fast for herself and daughter be served IN the
room She then went back up to the room.
HER MOTHER TRIED TO INTERCEPT HER
The waiter who served the meal says that when
he took It up TO the room Miss Jewett was SUI IN
bed The rest of the story, as told py Mrs' jew
Oft Is rather disconnected Miss Jewett had been
lying on the bed In a sort OF revere sudceny
she sprang up. and started to run for one OF the
windows Her mother, divining her purpose.
sprang forward to intercept ner win the cul,-
ming OF the insane, the girl eluded her mother .
grasp and sprang headIong through ths WIZ, mmu'w w.
Her mother caught portion or the nlgntgo"n III
her hand but IL slipped through her nngers her
mother rushed to the window, and then covered
her eyes with her hands to shut out the a"iui
scene below. . ,,
The only person that saw Miss Jewett strike
the ground was the telephone boy Inc .elepnvme Sa
box is almost alongside the WINDOW oleclS pg pg
meath the window of Mrs. Jewetts room re
was working at one Of the switches, when ne saw
something white flash past the WINDOW, nc
turned quickly and heard dull noise, as IL SONS
heavy body was striking the ground He tnen
saw that some one had fallen. he says tnat MISS
Jevett turned over in coming down, ana struck
on the back of her head. She did not cry out os
/ moan She simply gave a sort OF shudder ana
| then straightened out The boy looked up ana
saw Mrs Jewett standing at the window, with
her hands over her face she was screaming.
The window Is about forty-five feet above the
| courtyard.
TIVE PARENTS FRUSTRATED WITH GRIEF.
Policeman Roe the officer on duty in front OF
J the hotel was sent for. He went out into the
courtyard. and forbade any one touching the
body except the hotel physician. The hotel doc
tor. after superficial examination, said that the
girl was dead There was a hemorrhage from the
| left ear and the base of the skull seemed TO be
| broken The Coroner's ONCE was Informed OF tho
| occurrence. and permit secured for tne reHo' al
OF the body to an undertaking establishment
| Coroner Hoeber viewed the body but as MI ana
| Mrs Jewett were completely Frustrated WIN
| grief he seid that he would defer taxing their
statements for a day or 50 until they recovered
| from the shock.
Edward H. Jewett. the brother. was not there
! at the time that the unfortunate affair occurred.
| but he was sent for. He superintended the re-
| moval of the body to Davidsous undertaking
rooms at No l47 West Forty -sixth-st. The church
! bells were Just ringing out call FOR the morning
service when the little party started on the sad
GRAND. Later in the day the oody was taken to
the other undertaking rooms OF the same Arm in
| West Seventy-second-st
| Last night at the Windsor Hotel. all members
| OF the family declined 10 be The funeral
| will take place at p. m. on Tuesday from the
| Windsor Hotel and the burial will be In Green.
wood Cemetery. Miss Jewett was well known in
Staten Island society and was popular with Z
| large circle OF friends