The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-21
MAD LEAP BY "A WOMAN
MISS MARIE DINSE JUMPS FROM
BROOKLYN BRIDGE.
Crew of a Passing Tug Picks Her Up
Apparently None the Worse
for Her Plunge.

NEW YORK, April 20.-Miss Marie Dinse,
of this city, jumped from the Brooklyn
bridge, at o'clock this afternoon, with
out serious injuries. Many men have made
this leap into the waters of the East river
since the bridge has been completed. Most
of them have perished, but Miss Dinse is
the second woman who has ever attempted
to end her life in this way. On Sept. 6,
1895, a Mrs. Macarthur jumped from the
bridge and was but slightly injured. She
was discharged when arraigned in the Po-
lice Court
On Aug. 3 the same year Miss Macarthur
made an attempt to jump, but was stopped
by the bridge police. The woman who
jumped to-day is now In Hudson-street
Hospital. The physicians found that no
bones were broken, but they say it is possi-
BILE that she has received internal injuries.
In the carriage in which she drove to the
middle span of the bridge was found
brooch. on which was engraved M. Dinse,
May %, 1884," and she was also identified
through papers on her person as Miss
Dinse. She is about thirty-two years of
age, and was formerly a part owner Of
boarding house in this city.
Miss Dinse stepped from carriage in
motion about fifty feet from the bridge
tower on the New York end and dropped
to the water below, striking, according to
an eyewitness, about twenty feet from the
Clyde line pier, which encircles the tower.
She was picked up by the crew Of the
tug Tacoma. which was moored nearby.
The fact that she had no money and had
ordered herself to be driven to a place in
Brooklyn where she is not known leads the
police to believe that suicide was planned
Thomas 1. Moss, a hackman. gives the
best account of the womans act She ap-
preached him on Broadway and requested
him to take her to No. lib Fulton street
Brooklyn. "She acted rather odd," said
Moss 'and / a little afraid that
would lose my pay, but finally concluded
to take the chance. When we got to the
ticket taker on the bridge she had no
money to buy the ticket. She pulled a
ring from her finger and offered it to the
man as security, but he would not take
it. L was about to turn around and bring
her back, and had partly turned the
horse. when she said that I would get
the money when we reached Fulton street.
So paid the toll and went ahead. I was
past the first tower and going at trot,
when I heard people calling. I turned
around and saw the door of the hack open
on the side nearest the promenade. The
woman was about twelve feet behind me
and climbing over the low railing. Before
the bridge policeman. who was near. could
reach her she had squeezed through a
triangular hole between the braces and
dropped. She did not jump. just dropped -
A bridge policeman, on hearing the cries.
dashed toward her. but was a moment too
late The woman struck the water on
her side and after the first splash foated.
drifting down stream, carried by the ebb
tide The tug Tacoma put out and picked
her up unsconscious. and after some de-
lay, she was removed to the hospital.
For nonpayment of installments and
rent, Miss Dinse was dispossessed on
Wednesday from boarding house that she
and a man named f. Maudin were run
ming on Twenty-third street. Since that
time she has been melancholy and has
remained In her room most of the time