The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-07-09
WOMAN LEAPS FROM A BOAT.
uI>S Tf>HfR TRIES NItIDE
tEO>>I>G I IERRi.
Drank Parrsoric Also iibrsS,an 81 the
Chart, Orxanifatioa ~>ss,~,,. and .
Daughter of . tt,u Engineer on the
b q, VA Nr>ru~f b, Yacht.

Miss katharine Ralston Fisher. librarian
| ~ ~. Charity Organization Sucirty a.
Fourth avcuur~ and Iw"nty--Sond str,,.,
iunIsl from the frrrlluat Texas INTO
tho las River about > o'clock Yesterday
afternoon with III" evident Intention of
cunuuttiug -uCtde. She vas rcsyu.-i ~
Sailor Emil johnson of the steam Yacht
SrnHca AMI brought To Bellevue Hospital
wh'rr she was detained ~ a prisoner.
Mss Fisher II about q wears old. good
lookIry, drd regarded a. n skillcd librarian
She ."rvcl AZ ono time a. the hh-nrisn IL
| the Prc.Ca;h.,lrsl ia stanton str-,t About
SIX month, * she accepted the position
she now holds She D., the daughter Il
Mr. AMI Mr. Francis u P>het II i5j Rem
ZEN street. Brooklyn Mr. Fisher j. en-.
plnvcd hv IA" lsgnon. Mclean Contract
Ing~ Company a. a civil engineer on he sub
way construction. Intd four months ago
Miss Fisher lived with her parents A,
hat time she rented n small furnished
room IN the luariing house 81 Miss BRYAN
AT ~ East Twenty--econd street and has
t.-'n living thcrc sinrr.
She l.ft Ms. Brvan'. house V, yesterday
morning after having had breakfast and
Appeared at her desk in the library at her
usual hour She lcft her work a, / 80 o'clock
IN the afternoon. saving that shc was soirg
HON" for luncheon, Instead. she went
into "a ncighlu1ng drIgstaJ. and tot ght
a small hottlc Il p~aregouc. Then ,h"
walked down - III. loot 81 Fast Twenty
third strr-t ard boarded the ferrytoai
ToNa-, which plies l-twe-'n that plac" AMI
broadway. Williamsburg
Lhc boat had got only \ few hundred f'r'
ont into IA" river when IN" Voung womlu
NH fp Tho storm and throw hgr4flf nNeT-
hoard IN" hopt vas stopped A. onc'.
hui IN" I'd" wa strong at IA" timo and
carried Miss Fisher ont of reach IT,"
seneca was coming up the river lus' 'he1.
on \iu'ts"n'h street one 81 ~ sailors
! caught sight - IN" woman drifting down
with the Tide. lie jumped TRIO ~" water
nrd SUCCEEDED Va reaching h'r, although
~" ua- morr than 30 feet away II" h'li
her up until \ inat from The Sruecl Wa
lowered and picked thc'n up
unconscious. az the foot - \iro'o,u'h
str'-' Al ambulance brought her -
u ll"Vi" Nuspital Sic recovered -uN
GENTLY - CIV" her name, but refused 80
tell ANYTHING els" about herself Later
ia" had a r"lare'. CAUSED hy congestion ~
the lung~. and for som" tim" Il was feared
that ~ would lie Sh" was restored hy
m" adtrtUi-tratipu - oxyg7u
IN. f,rrv crew had 10 tho meantime"
| fnuni a carl and the Ior'gnrIr bottle u0
The hoa' Tho bottle v1- empty On
The card ans written 4 request that 7 u
Fisher = 90" Ivruo1-NrI"1n COMPANY
and Sacr, 'a-v = J D'vin" e IA" Charity
ORGANIZATION SoCiN'v h- notified III" i-
scripiion wa headed hy tho word suicide
The parents and a brother e ME- J ,-hcr
arrived at the hospital within littl" mcrr
than an hour They were unable to give
any explanation for the Young woman's
act. Mrs. Fisher said that her daughter
visited her Monday evening. having lust
r.ssfTnaN from n ptensfIFe trim In thR ats
kills and that she then seemed a. happy
and ~onten'ed ~ over.
S-re',-v D'viuc spoke very lighlv {
Mis- Fisher. both personally and IS q
librarian The only explanation h." could
sIgg~s' vas that Miss FISHER, Nho vas
nervous and high-s'uluc. had l"en tom
purlflIv insane a. q result II tho weather
LAT" 100 ~" afternoon Nts Fisher was
permitted - 80" hor daughter Tor n fcv
miru'"- Tho Young wora1 will y" A.
raj gn"d In the Nurkvill" polio" court whom
~" 0, strong enough 20 60 through that
ordeal