The Portland daily press., 1900-08-27
JUMPED OVERHEARD.
Suicide of Mrs. Harry
Wilson Kimball.
She Jumped From HOratiO dali in
Long Island Sound.
Said She Felt AS If She
Must Go.
Miss Adele Burnham of New
York Saw the Woman Jump.

Mrs Harry Wilson KimbalI, presumably
of Norway, Maine, jumped overheard
from the steamship Horatio Hall, about
8 O'Clock. Sunday morning when the ship
was in Long Island Sound on her way
TO Portland, ana was lost.
1t is believed from what has since been
learned, that Mrs. kinaban was Temporal
riIy deranged.
Mrs. Kimbau was somewhere about
30 years old. She boarded the Horatio
Hall at New York and was assigned to
the lower berth in state room No. 100,
on the upper deck. AT o'clock Miss
Adele Burnham OF New York came on
board the snip and was given the upper
berth in this stateroom. When she en-
tered the room, Mrs. Kimball, whom she
had never seen before, was lying IN her
berth
The two ladies soon became acquainted
and entered into conversation. Mrs.
Kimball said that she was going to Nor
way, Me-, for her health She was very
nervous she said, and had been suffering
great deal from this cause. Miss Burn
ham was also coming to Maine for her
health. In the course Of the conversation
Miss Burnham mentioned that she had
resided in Denver for awhile and learned
that Mrs. Kimban had also lived there
and that they knew quite a number of
people in common. This made 1t very
pleasant for both of the ladies and they
talked for some time, Mrs. Kimball tell
ing Miss Durham among other things
that she had never fully recovered from
the shock. occasioned by the death of her
first husband in Denver, from consump-
ton.
Miss Burnham went to bed about II
O'Clock. The ship was at that time in q
dense fog and the whistle was blowing
at frequent intervals Mrs. KfmbalI
was in bed but was not asleep. Some
time later in the night Miss Burnham
was awakened by Mrs Kimban getting
out OF her berth. Mrs. Kimbal took a
stool and went to the window of the
stateroom which she opened and was ap-
parently looking out. Miss Burnham
said to her that it was so foggy that 1t
was impossible for Mrs. Kimba1 to see
anything and she advised her to get back
into her berth. Mrs. Kimbau had on
her skirts and a light dressing sack
Miss Burnham told her she might catch
cold.
Mrs. Kimban suddenly turned around
to the young woman in the upper berth
aud said
Hush, don't let any one know, but
FL 49, II ....,-k 90, 10 kha for.o,. Of
Miss Burnham, Mrs. K1mbaH climbed up
on the stool and began to get out Of the
window.
Miss Burnham jumped out Of her berth
as quickly as possible and ran to the win
dow, but by that time Mrs. kimball
had disappeared Miss Durham then
ran out in the saloon and found watch
man to whom she told the story. The
Waterman hurried into the stateroom
and looked out on to the deck, but could
not see the woman. Then he jumped
out through the window onto the deck
and ran forward and asked the Waterman
there il he had seen anything of the
woman, but could get no trace of her.
The captain of the ship was then notified
and the ship brought to a stop, but some
10 or 10 minutes had elapsed since Mrs.
KimbalI had climbed out through the
window and the ship had IN the mean
time gone a mile or a mile and a half.
The fog was very thick and it was i'm
possible to see any distance so that it
was deemed useless to go back or lower
boat,
Mrs. KimbaIl had evidently jumped
over the railing about the upper deck as
soon as she went through the window.
1t was some % feet from the water ana
as this stateroom was well forward a
person falling overheard would have
been swept astern right under the big
screw and would probably have been
struck by it.
Miss Burnham was Of course much
overcome by this affair, but she was
able to give the officials OF the line
enough information so that they came
to the conclusion that Mrs Kimball had
been temporarily deranged. Her cloth :
ing, money and jewelry were taken pos
session OF by the officers of the boat who
will await claimant for them..=
The PRESS endeavored to communi
cate with Norway last night to learn
more about Mrs. Harry Wilson Kimball,
but was unable to reachsthat town eth
or by telephone or telegraph.
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