New-York tribune., 1900-04-21
WOMAN JUMPS OFF BRIDGE
DESPONDENCY OVER LOSS OF MONEY
LEADS TO AN ATTEMPT
AT SUICIDE.

Miss Marie RosaIie Dinse. about thirty years
cd. until recently interested in boarding
house at No. 312 West Twenty -third-st Jumped
from the Brooklyn Bridge near the New-York
tower, Yesterday afternoon at > O'clock with
he evident intention Of committing suicide
Her skirts acted to some extent as a parachute
and she struck tha water with her body at an
angle that tended to lessen the violence Of the
blow Although badly shaken up she was still
alive after midnight at Hudson Street Hospital
At midnight the attending doctor said:
The woman seems TO be doing we'll No bones
were broken, and she is less hysterical than she
statement 70 any one since Coming here fn tac
5Ae Is TOO nystercal TO talk integibly 1t looks
i she would recover.
The woman stepped from a carriage in motion
about fifty feet from the Bridge tower the
New-York erd and dropped 70 the water below.
striking according to eyewitness. about
twenty feet from the Clyde Line pier, which
encircles the tower From an investigation
made by the police last night. It would
that the woman was desDondent over the loss
Of her money, which she invested in a boarding
house venture in company with a man named
Frederick Naudin.
Thomas I Moss, Of No 521 Hudson-st a
hacknlan, who is the owner Of the carriage
which carried the out on the Bridge,
gives the best account Of the woman's act She
approached him in Broadway, near the City
Hall, and requested him 10 take her to No. 112
Fulton "Strasse' Brooklyn, where the Brook
lyn police say she is not known. He tells this
story:
She had money. but I thought I had nothing
We o ~ va ia 49, axe m me me Sriga 6a " 5 %
said I would get my money when reached Fu-
ton-st. So gave the man nickel and went ahead.
br pope T ane @ 8f gong al 0 aro49d %R9d
and saw the door Of the hack open on the side
The woman was about twelve feet behind me and
pocean Who Was near coud reach her e she 6sd
squeezed through a triangular hole between the
braces and dropped down.
Moss continued over TO Brooklyn. where he
was taken into custody by the police. but later
released. Policeman Bonn, OF the Bridge Squad,
was in the roadway about one hundred feet from
the woman, but was too late 10 catch her
The tug Tacoma put out from Pier No. % and
picked her up landing her Pier No. 2S, the
woman then being unconscious. William
Neserbe. a cartmau. living at No. 90 Bowery-
st. Jersey City, was on the pier and volunteered
70 take the woman TO the Hudson Street Hos
pitaL He was his way there with her when
overtaken by an ambulance
The woman was attired in black nodestIy but
well On her person were found a number Of
papers in German. One, on being translated
proved 70 be contract between Marie Dnse
and F. Naudin. II was dated August I, 1899
and, according TO its terms. Marie Dinse agreed
TO pay TO F Naud1n S4tO for a part interest in
boarding house at No 312 West Twenty -third-st
and was 10 receive in return a third Of the re-
ceipts, the settlements 10 be made monthly.
The boarding house at No. 80 West Twenty
Ihrd-st. is run by Mrs. Hosford. who said yes
terday afternoon that she bought it six weeks
ago She said Naudin ran it for nine months
before that. and that Marie Dnse lived with
him. She said they were dispossessed for non
payment oe rent and moved to No. 314 in the
same street. There II was said that Naudin and
Miss Dinse we're dispossessed on Wednesday.
One document found the was ap-
parertIy the viii Of foster parents. Captain
John Collar Dinse and his wife, filed in the
County Court Dantsic, Germany on Decem-
Der l3 1887. The document states that the Cap
tain and mis- wife had adopted Marie ROsalie
Hinchmann that they had cancelled their old
VIII and that their adopted child, Marie, should
be sole heir their estate. The paper is
signed. Il appears 10 have been made out by
D. 2. RleCk, DantSlC lawyer. In the carriage
in which the woman rode the police found
brooch on which was engraved M. Dinse, May
D. 1857
Miss Dinse was not the first woman 10 jump
from the Bridge. On September 6, 1895, q Mrs.
Macarthur Jumped from the Bridge and was
only slightly injured. When arraigned in the
Cenrre-st. police court she discharged. On
August 30 Of the same year Mrs. Macarthur
made attempt to jump. bur was stopped by
the Bridge police.
Mrs Blanchard, Of No. 314 West Twenty
third-st.. who knows the woman we'll. says Miss
Dirse told her she haG lent 500 TO NaUdin and
Dinse had had her money in a Brooklyn bank
? Naudn lives with his wife al No. 205 West
Twenty fiTst-sr