The sun., 1900-07-14
OWED THROUGH A WINDOW
WOMAN DROWNS HERSELF FROM 4
HOBOKEN FERRYBOiT.

nan saw Her do II. but She Was Too OuIck
Tor Him TO Prevent It-Paper in Her Pock.
etbook with Miss }. Jarvis" on u-uer
nody Not Found-Hit by Paddle VIE -
when the ferryboat Moonachie OF the Uoboks,
rerry Company was nearing It's slip at the foot
oi west Fourteenth street at s:4s last night an
excited man ran out of the women's cabin ana
rushed up to the members of the crew who
were standing in tho forward part Of the boat.
woman has jumped overheard" he
shouted. i saw her jam herself through one Of
tne caDln windows couple OF minutes ago.
she did 1t all SO quickly thatI couldn't stop her.
ana was 80 unnerved at the sight that I
couldn't move until now"
capt Castine Of the ferryboat, who had
heard the man. Immediately slgnalled Ia
u," engineer TO stop. An Erie freight
Doat that was passing also stoned.
Tor its captain had seen the wom.
an jump usboat steamed up ana
Joined in tho search. Capt. Castine shouted to
the persons standing on the pier and man ran
out to the end Of the piles to sse II there vss
any sign of the woman in the river. lie could
find none '"~
a In themeantime the man who had given tho
% ,ain ,th,or'han8n ,hs, had explained to tho cap:
and her parasoI, on the he seal 'Ae,sSSs besISs
farc ner heIore s ne could move he said, she had
l2rced heT Dody through window lust forward
oi ,he Iaddle-W heel. He believed she had been
struck by the paddle wheel, she was so short
distance from II.
A young woman passenger said that she saw
tne @ woman take of her hat and then
,tp ret on her knees on the seat She
srfinn snGnght b,, Wat b thls was rather strange
Iehslons maniac. she did not wish to stare at
ner. ana turned her head away. The nsrt
ming she knew about the matter was when she
twn feet wide and they open only half way
Ihe woman's property was taken from the
seat by the captain; 1t consisted of a black
with redwood handle and pocketbook In
me pocketoook were two small pearls, a slip OF
paper with Miss J Jarvis. i25 East Sixteenth
which was written H " Abbott. IT, 80 eSsi Centre
street, w'paper clipping headed New
SpTina bsodeS Us irSn Ras,ing and newspapsr
also a SLIP OF paper that looked as II IL
had been torn from memorandum book. Il had
Writing on both sides and had been handled 90
names Of well-known persons, but ia many cas- o"sss
tn spelling or the initials were wrong There
We're lot ol chemical formule and a number
the Words bsweshP Ss sad as SoSU: SSST
what appeared on each line OF the paper:
o,op;, %P A. B wni lrdneE Phladelghia Doian; F. 7.
O,,Do'''~ of Ndl EusOn BraOy, American Dis
tilling Company; Anthony r. Braday: Edward
Murphy; Hugh Il. Grant: d, SIS yapor ais. 900
PROOF sp.; sso-9i7; 235 William; Arthur
s5s w 81; 20S W IA; Hunter H. c. i0OB:
ieO SO; Nelson Astor House McLaybler 4 ts
Dy; Amy zyincut: Perth Amboy; Holder Co:
Vegetables: Charcoal Dust w.
The man who had witnessed the jumping said
that he believed that the woman was about 50
years old, but he could hot give
any description Of her The matron
0f the Willow avenue station In
Hoboken. however. gave an Opinion
that no woman 50 years old would have worn
that blacS straw hat with the red pOnpies and
she was firm In the belief that II must have been
young woman The property OF the suicide
WAS taken to Police Headanar,erf in-ftoboken
The house at I25 East Sixteenth street IL q
boarding house. rhe police of the East
twenty second street station reported
to polici headquarters that the pro-
prietor OF the boarding house had
told policeman OF that station that a woman
named j. Jarvis had lived there for eighteen
months. but that he knew nothing about her.
as she had kept to herself