Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-14
THREATENS SUICIDE
STYLISHLY DRESSED WOMAN
MAKES STARTLING STATEMENT.
Declares She is Tired of Life - The
Police Searching for
Her Today.

A stylishly dressed young woman, wear
ing diamonds in her ears and on her fin
gers, was discovered last night at the filtra-
ton plant by Irving Hall, who was en-
ployed there in charge of a stationary en-
CINE. She told Hall she was there for the
purpose of ending her fife in the reservoir.
but had been unable to do so because of
| the thickness of the coating of ice on the
water.
But she said, I'm going to kill my
| self. anyhow"
Telling the young man she intended to
| jump into the river. she started down LIST
street in the direction of the city. Hall
made no effort to stop her. but notified the
police of the incident later in the night. 1t
was long after o'clock when the message
reached police headquarters which was
| rather late for the police to accomplish
| her rescue. had the woman really meant
| to do what she said. The several precinc. s
We're notified, however, and told to be on
| the lookout
Nothing was seen of her after she left
| the filtration plant, nor was any woman
answering to her description reported as
missing. A young woman named Florence
Jordan escaped from the Insane Asylum
| last night, but the account given of her
| does not tally with that of the woman who
| conversed with Irving Hall.
Questioned by Hall.
Hall was on duty at an engine near the
reservoir about 8 o'clock when he noticed
a stylishly dressed woman walking about
| in the deep mud The sight was such an
| unusual one that he inquired of her why
| she was there and what she wanted. Her
response was that she was tired of life
and was there for the purpose of ending it.
| She then told him of her disappointment at
not being able to drown herself in the reser-
vor on account of the ice. She had not
| been seen inside the iron fence surround
| ing the body of water and there was moth
ling about her to indicate that she had
/ been in water.
Il have money and diamonds in my pock-
etbook," she said to the engineer, land
I'm going to take them down with me-
but she did not disclose her identity nor
say why she wanted to take her life. The
| young man offered to clean the mud off her
shoes and she accepted the offer.
Here's some change" she said to him
when he had completed the task.
He declined to accept the money, but she
| put it in his side pocket while he was clean
| ing her shoes, and he found it there when
| she had gone. Leaving the dismal place
where there was nothing to see but a lit
| tie machinery, banks of mud and the ice
on the water in the reservoir. the woman
| walked south in the direction of Balti-
more street and disappeared.
Policeman Makes Search.
Policeman Hunt stopped at the plant
later in the night and heard Halls version
of the incident He obtained as good a
description of the woman he could and
then tried to find some person who had
seen her after she left the place where
she had conversed with Hall. He failed
to find any such person, and reported the
incident to the tenth precinct station. Cap
tain Boardman said today he had heard
of nobody answering the woman's descrip-
ton having disappeared lately. The woman
it is stated, Wore dark clothes and veil
that was tied over her hat and about her
neck.
Policemen along the river front made
anxious inquiries today for information re-
specting the woman, but failed to find any
body who had seen such a person. There
was no drowning reported and the police
are not inclined to take~tfla matter seri-
ously, although they making every eff