The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-13
THREW HERSELFFROMACAR
RECKLESS WOMAN PAssEyGER UN-
CONSCIOUS IN a HOSPITAL.

sprang on the Front Platform in N ndison
Avenus While the Car Was Going at
Full Speed and Fell on Her Head
Says sizes Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson.
woman who was passenger on Madison
avenue car bound uptown about O'Clock last
night got up from her seat as the car passed
Fifty-nrst street and walking out on
the front platform. according to
the conductor and several passengers.
deliberately jumped of the car. which was
going at full ppeed. Tho woman's head
struck the pavement and she was picked up
unconscious. At Flower Hospital. where she
wac removed, II was said last n light that she was
suffering from what m ight prove to be a fracture
OF the skull. She recovered consciousness later
but was 80 dazcd that the police could not
satisfactorily identify her. nor could they dis
cover the reason for her act.
The car was No. 1858 and was in charge OF
Conductor Eugene O'Shaughnessy OF 44S West
Flity-seventh street. The latter did not
notice just where the woman got on
his car but he says that 1t was somewhere
below Twenty-thlrd street. She appeared to
be about nifty years old and wore black cash
mere dress. slate colored gloves and a black
bonnet. She was about tho medium height
and had light hair.
The ssnt the woman took was at tho upper
end OF the car pretty near the front door. The
car had stopped a few streets below Fifty-frRt
street and the motorman had given It full
.p..aa Wien Just du, a. the The b:5eet was as
ISss time atse.d NO o"O sd on up rose
and began to open the front door. one
i've. the e. Hc. her s.y ys' Hs . .nS
woman a. she walked out on the platform. but
did not soc her at nr.t. The gate on the front
Platform .hIch usms shut hid I'D
street According to The stories told to the III,
rolics by the con.duct'r ., and Rails, the
be stopped and the passengers supposed
ih.. was coins, to ~, ,Tp.alt , to The motor~nn
sUsT She CAV. s one look a. 70 Il" hop . nes
and then without any warning stepped on.
Gss m9, y 81 III. osr u ,Ss her ysps
hnSi saw ,he woman IN n. stree, and stobrsd
E Ef the had driver Of Sowas pr' the Wagon ssl
s:d Nth ni1 and Dan 1T. f ae p; .
pa.ssnssf. followed him there. but rhsn 1 IL.
sergeant heard their stories he decided that
no one had been to blame for tho AFFAIR and
O,Shaugnesv was not held.
station TO the hospital. where about ii o'clock
last night she recovered consciousness, long
enough 10 gay that her nam. wa, El,Z;nhsth An.
At AZ West Forty-eighth street She was too
dazed TO say anything more. At DR..
night who recognized the name tho
woman had given, and the servant said TINT
there were NO visitors stsyng there. DR.
Bishop. who was seen at Flower Hosnital said
he d ID not know such awom.n. Thcre Ia a Dr.
louis F. Bishop At 30 West Thirty-sixth
woman from the description given, but sug-
gested that she might have given the name OF
D.. Bristol NJ ~ West Thir'y-sichth street
Dr. Bristol wns secn. but he also failed to
recognize the woman.
which was the address, 1al West Seventy-
ninth street. but the police were unable TO get
any information about her At that house. The
doctors at the hospital last night were OF opin-
lon that the woman would recover.