The evening world., 1904-08-01
Brooding Over Unhappy Love
Affair. Miss Susan Gaspen
Goes Mad and Jumps from
Second Story Window.
FIGHTS OFF FRIENDS
WITH AMAZING STRENGTH,
Crowd Sees Her Balanced on
Ledge and vainly Shouts
May Recover from Injuries,
but Never Her Reason.

p~nnous with nishtrsr. N., su..r
Gaspen. t~sr;y-vne year, old. OF No
ns Ess. On. Hundred and TWENTY
rourth street, Jumped from the second.
story window Of her HON. ear,v IA.
day In the presence OF a great crowd
that had besn attracted by her erie,
and ths noise Of . struggle she had
with her relatives and friends. who On.
desvorsd 10 restrain her.
She was taken TO the Harlsm Hoe.
! pftsl suffering from a broken arm. In
ternal Injuries and q deep cash In
her forshead and Will probably de.
Eroodsd over Love MAR.
The young woman lived with Mr..
AID Mrs. Simon Hirsch. Harry ana
Arthur Leasing and Bertha Lessins
Yesterday they all spent mo holiday
In Glen Island. arriving home ~fy
In the rsnng, Min Gsspsn seemed
TO be In good spirits when she went
to bed. though for the past few weeks
she has been broodins over an un
happy love anair.
Arthur Leasing. who occupied the
room adjoining the young wophns
Was awakened early this morning by
the sound Of Eroanins He went into
Miss osspsn's room and asked nsr II
she we're III. She replied that she had
had q nightmare IN which Mr.. Less
ing's dead mother appeared to her ana
told her that she was going TO die. Mr.
Leasing called his sister and she tried
to comfort the glrL
FOUGHT With Unnatural strength.
The young woman continued to Eroan.
however, and suddenly became raving
mad. shs ssissd her would-bs com
forter by the arm and bit her s~avassly.
Then she hurled her through q mir
ror. This aroused all the other In
mates OF the house. who rushed 10 the
room. When they sndssvored to 80
cure the craEed woman they found she
was possessed Of unnatural strength.
A. they seized her she fought them
IN, biting and striking. Though OF
slender build. she picked the men up
bodily and dashed them TO the roor.
She drove Tie women bruised and
bleeding from the room, and When
finally the two Leesing> and AIR. Hirscb
made a CONCERTED affort to hold her she
picked up a %iatiron and drove rhem
into the hallway.
The screams OF IN. inslne woman
and The crash OF broken glass and FUR
niture arou sed all the neishbors on the
block. and soon there was q crowd col.
looted In the street. Mr.. Hlrsch warned
his relatives not to attempt TO do any
thing with the mad until police
assistance arrived. From a private sig
box in his house he sent q call
to he East One Hundred and Twenty
sixth street station.
Crowd Saw Her Leap.
Before the police arrived. how~er,
Miss Ga spsn appeared at the second
story window OF the house. clad only
in her underlothes and q blanket
she had wrapped around h~, II
was then bright daylight, and tht
OF people In the street saw the
climb out IN the window ledge
md wave her hands frantically about
Ter head.
The orc wd shouted for her not To Jump,
md she hesitatcd a moment Then she
capped and fell into the area under the
'toop. Though severely injured shs did
lot lose consciousness, and when Pc
Farrell went to her assistance
he fought him desperately with one
An ambulance was summoned
rom the Harlem Hospital, and when
Bruins arrived he found that It was
Iecessary 10 put the woman In n strait
acket to prevent her from doing fur
harm n herself.
"a Little white Rose"
on the way to the hospital the young
roman said: {
Il gave Isaac q littls white rose and /
. buried T. With It he buried his
I'VE for me-" .
Al the hospitss n x,s found that the
Dung woman va violently Insane and.
houFh she may recover from her In %