New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-01-23
FOLLOWED HERPET TO DEATH
LITTLE JENNIE DONDIN FELL FROM A
ROOF To THE GROUND
THE CHILD HAD BEEN PLAYING WITH A CAT
WHICH RAN AWAY FROM HER. AND SHE
PURSUED 1T OVER THE HorStrols-
HER MOTHER HEARD A SCREAM.
BUT DID not Know
THE TRUTH.

THE TRUTH.
bow o. whit. ribbon In the doorway Of 30 3es
Hicks-st Brooklyn. gave notice to passers-h that
death has claimed one OF the little within
bu, that is all Il DID not tell the pathetic story
O, how little Jennie Dondin. less than two years
oil the only child OF Mr. and Mrs. John pondln
followed her pet cat up eight steps OF ladder. set
almos, pcrpcndcularly. TO the scuttle. ana theh
wandered across the roofs OF the adjoining houses
10 No iOt where she walked TO the edge ami fcH
a distance o. four stories TO the yard receiving In
turtles which resulted In her death In the Long
Island College Hospital about an hour later.
The houses numbered from 3sS 10 ioi llicks-si
are three-story and basement brick buildings
which when this part OF Iiicks-si. was an ok
elusive ne.ghborhood. were single homes They are
to-day tenement-houses. with one or two families on
ZACH floor John Dondin. who is a gas-hter. and his
wife with their little one. occupied three 'front.'
rooms on the top floor In the hallway opposite
the door 10 the main room OF the Dondin apart
ments is small closet. in which the ladder TO the
roof IA placed
Mrs Dondn left little Jennie alone in her rooms on
Sunday night while she went into tho rear to speak
to her neghbor She left the door OF the room opei
no that she might the child she came out near
tho stairway Jennie. who child bright be-
yond her years. was playing with pet cat which
had been her companion since II was kitten Ihe
front windows were closed and the mother thought
her child safe from harm.
The cat ran INTO the Hdu"dN, anu J'iIic t"'"''N
after e. Into the little closet the cat dashed. but
Jennie caught sight Of 1t 1t sprang up the step
ladder to the open scuttie The bottom OF the lad
der Is encountered with washboler ana other
kitchen utensils. but Jennie. determined to recover
her cat made her way over these distractions 10
the ladder She climbed the eight steps and then
dragged her little form up from the top step-a
space OF fully twenty irchesto the top Of the scut-
deepening and gained the roof.
Whether II was In effort 10 capture the way
ward cat or having gained the roof a region un-
known TO her, the little one wandered aimlessiy
about and thus made her way over the roofs OF
the neighbornx houses to the spot from which she
fell no one can say for she was alone on the roo'
The division walls of the four houses forming the
row do not extend above the roof. and there was
no obstruction In Jennics way neither Is there any
wall at the front OF the roof.
The first that Mrs. Dondin knew of any accident
was when she heard some in the rear yard
scream Even then sh" had no thought or danger
IN her child Mrs Fagin who lives on the base
ment floor OF No. 40I, was the first to reach me
Injured child The little ones head hG struck me
| frozen earth, and she was unconscious. Davu
| Convey OF No 329 Furman-st.. picked up the IN,
| iured child and with 1t TO the Long Island
| College Hospital. IN Henry-st.
| Mrs Dondin followed as soon az she learned thal
| Il was her little one that was hurt. The doctors
| Jennie had fallen she was dead
| The funeral was held yesterday afternoon amu
| Father Gambler of ST. Peters Roman Catnoiic
| Church, officiated