The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-30
She SOUGHT DEATH NSUBWAY
AFTER THE WIFE or HER ESCORT
HAD SPOTTED THEN.
Emergency Brake and Policeman saved
Her. and Man and WIFE went Back to
Brooklyn Together, Leaving "Helen
brown, stenOgrapher." 20 he Jailed.

Her. and Man and WIFE went Back TO
Brooklyn Together, Leaving Helen
brown, stenOgrapher," TO he JaIletl.
Two excited women and a well dressed
man stood near the ticket Office in the
! Bridge entrance Of the Brooklyn Bridge
subway station at $40 O'Clock last night
! The women were shaking their fists at each
other and talking in tense tones. The
man looked as though he wished he wasn't
! there.
One Of the women was about 40 years
old and OF matronly appearance. The
other was much younger and pretty. The
| younger woman was the more excited.
She was crying. The man and the older
woman started TO go toward the Brooklyn
Bridge exit. The younger woman turned
quickly and grabbed the mans arm. He
pulled away and went on with the woman
Of matronly appearance.
-Hon't leave me-" the younger woman
cried and then shrieking she left the couple,
ran around the railing which divides the
passageway into the entrance and exit
alleys and made for the steps leading down
to the unused uptown platform on the
east side Of the subway station. Two
chains we're stretched across the entrance
ut the top Of the stairs. She Jumped over
the chains and half ran and half fell down
the steps.
The headlights Of a nOrthbound Broad
way local were just appearing in the gloom
when she reached the bottom OF the stairs.
She paused for a moment, then jumped out
on tho tracks. She fell back over the pro-
tected third rail. The train was about
100 feet away.
Policeman O'Connor had started after
the woman, but had hardly reached the
bottom Of the stairs when she jumped.
O'Connor threw himself on the platform
on his stomach, reached down and grabbed
the woman by one arm. As he did so the
"sss' Of the emergency brake on the train
sounded The woman struggled, but
O'Connor-a six footer-pulled her up to
him in a jihy. The train passed-just
passed-and came to a stop with the pas
sengens wondering what they had been
jounced that way for.
The man and the matronly woman had
remained in the entrance only long enough
70 see the younger woman rush down the
stairs toward the platform. They had
walked hurredly away 20 the Bridge exit.
Policeman Spelt, who had run in to see
what was the matter, had met them az they
we're leaving the subway station When
he heard the facts Of the case he turned
around and overlook them and asked them
10 go with him 70 the City Hall police sta
ton. This they did without demonstrating.
The younger woman was before the
syTgeants desk when the couple arrived
at the station. She was hysterical and
didn't pay much attention to either the
man OF the woman. The matronly woman
appeared cool. The man was embarrassed.
Both declined to give their names. The
man WAS Of medium height. rather stout,
with dark hair and a sandy mustache,
and about Is years old. lie wore a long
dark overcoat and a diamond pin.
The unidentified couple, as soon as the
police had finished their effopts to get the
names. left the ytation. As the man turned
to go, the younger woman, who up to that
time had remained leaning against the
rail Of the sergeant's desk passively, cried
out:
My God, you aren't going to leave me
here alonel'
The man walked on ahead Of the woman
with him without even turning his head
and went to Brooklyn.
The prisoner said that she was Helen
Brown and that she lived at CAL DeKalb
avenue, Brooklyn. She told Policeman
O'Connor that she was a stenoPrapher.
She was disinclined TO answer any ques-
tons about the man and woman with her.
Finally, though, she admitted that the
woman who had gone away from the sta
ton with the man was his wife. The man,
she said was her family physician. She
admitted that she was out with him, and
she added that she thought she had a right
TO be. She would not tell his name. She |
was taken 10 the Elizabeth street station !
and locked up. She had not a cent OF !
money. She gave her age as % years. |
She is a slender girl with light brown hair !
and wore a dark tailormade gown. APP |
parently she had been coming from Brook |
lyn with the man and hat been encountered /
at the Bridge entrance by his wife.
At the Brooklyn address given by Helen |
Brown" il was said that she was not known |
there.
About 10 o'clock a man called up Police |
Headquarters in Brooklyn and asked how
he could get into communication with |
Helen Brown. He said he understood that |
she was locked up in the Tombs. The police |
asked him what his name was. He refused |
TO give il, but said that he was the young |
woman's brother. Later he called up the |
Tombs.
At IL o'clock the young woman requested |
the Sergeant at the Elizabeth street station |
to send a telegram for her. The telegram /
was addressed to b. Richards, 16S Under |
hill avenue, Brooklyn and read:
Come at once and bring father.
sHFIFNS