New-York tribune., 1902-08-03
DIES ON SECOND ATTEMPT.
SUICIDES SISTER HELD HER SUs-
PENDED BY SKIRT, BUT GAR
MENT PARTED.

After one unsuccessful attempt to end her life.
Mrs. Anna Weigel a widow, accomplished her
purpose on the second trial. in spite of the
vigilance Of her friends and the efforts of her
sister She threw herself from window the
second floor of No 335 West Fourteenth-st. last
evening, and died from her injuries she was
being taken into st, Vincent's Hospital.
Mrs. WeigeI, according to the police, lived at
No. 327 East Sixteenth-st. At the house where
she ended her life il was said that she lived in
apartments on the second floor. rear with her
sister Mrs. Leah Weller. Mrs weigeI was
thirty-five years old. and born in Germany.
Last night. about 7:30 O'Clock while her sister
was lying down, Mrs. WeigeI climbed out on the
ledge Of the rear window and threw herself to
the ground, twenty-five feet below.
In the first floor rear of the house, which is
known the Homestead, lives Mrs Unity
Hart She was in her kitchen when Mrs weigeI
leaped, and rushed 20 the window in time TO
see the woman on The ground and apparently
crawling toward the basement door of the
house. She began to scream and her cries
brought Adolph stahel, the superintendent of
the building, and elevator boy. to her apart
ments. She told them that some one had fallen
from a window. and there rush to the
yard There they found Mrs. weigel. lying on
the concrete floor Of the areaway They car
ried her up to the first floor. The woman ap-
peared to be dazed
1T is ali right" she said to stahel. 'I am
not hurt
Stahel wanted TO send for physician. 'I
tell you I am not hurt" the woman repeated
and then. if to prove her assertion, walked
down the hall
Mrs. Hart, who had assisted the woman, was
standing the head of the stairs Mrs.
Weigel walked up to her and then half turned.
as though to go down the hall again. Instead
Of doing So she brushed by Mrs. Hart, and ran
up the stairs. Mrs. Hart followed when she re-
covered from her surprise. She overlook her
just the reached the door of her sis
ter's apartments. She seized Mrs. weigel by
the shoulder but the latter gave her push,
which sent her almost back down the stairs.
Then the door Of the Weller apartments was
slammed in her face.
Mrs. Weller had been aroused by the noise in
the house. and was standing just inside the door
when her sister entered.
Whats the natter" she asked
For answer her sister pushed her out
of the way, and made dash for the rear win
dow-the same one from which she had 1eaped
beforehand climbed to the ledge.
Close behind her was Mrs. Weller, who now
understood what the excitement was about
She reached the window just as her sister
jumped. Mrs. Weller clutched the skirt Of her
sister, and for a second the latter was sus-
pended just below the sill.
1t was only for second. however. for the
skirt slipped through her hand, and the next
moment the unfortunate woman was on the
ground piece of her petticoat remained in her
sisters hand.
The superintendent of the building. the ee-
vator boy and Mrs. Hart rushed again TO the
basement This time they found the unrortu-
nate woman lying in the same spot where she
had first fallen. She was groanlng ana seHli-
conscious.
She was taken up TO the first floor again, and
this time the superintendent, seeing that she
was seriously injured telephoned to St Vim
cents Hospital 1t was found that the woman
had sustained compound fracture OF the Skull
She was placed in the ambulance, but, although
the vehicle hurried, the woman died just as she
was being lifted from it.
Persons at the house said that Mrs Weige on
Friday had been discharged from Bellevue Hos
rital where she had been treated for religious
mania.