The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-30
SUICIDE A BANK CLERKS WIFE
WOMAN WHO JUMPED BEFORE
TRAIN WAS MRS. GEO. HEMPEL.
He's a Department Manager for the Bank
OF New York-SaysH His Wife Often Tried
to Take Her Life-Not known at
Address He Gave to the Police.

He's a department manager iOr inc nahh
OF New York-Says His Wife Often Tried
to Take Her Life-Not known at
Address He Gave to the Police.
George Hempel, manager Of the ex-
change department Of the Bank Of New
York, at 4s Wall street, was relea sed by
Coroner Acritelli yesterday in $4,000 bail
to await the inquest into the death of his
wife, Ellen. who late Saturday night threw
herself in front Of a northbound elevated
railroad train at Third avenue and Eigh-
teenth street.
Hempel's address as it appeared on the
blotter at East Twenty-second street police
station and at the Morgue was 1893 Lexing-
ton avenue. the address is that Of a board
ing house. It was said there last night that
no one of the name of Hempel was known.
Hempel and his wife went to the theatre
Saturday night and afterward to supper. On
the way home they had some words. 1t is
said, and when they reached the platform
at the Eighteenth street station both
became very much excited.
Mrs. Hempel became hysterical and tried
to move away from her husband, but he
held on to her. AS the train was pulling
into the station she broke away from him
and jumped to the tracks.
George Baker, the motorman of 603 East
134th street. was arrested and with Hempel
and May Schwartz. IS years DID, OF SsO5
Third avenue. a witness, was q AIKEN to the
Coroner's Office and a~rraigned before Coro-
ner Acrltelli.
The Schwartz boy told Coroner Aoritelli
that when he first noticed the Hempels they
We're quarrelling; that ie. as he supposed.
He saw them struggle and, finally the woman
break away from her husband and Jump
in front of the train. He said that he, like
others, tried to get TO her before she jumped,
but without success. On his promise TO
appear at the inquest he wac allowed TO
GO. Balken was held in $500 bail and Hempel
in $1,000.
Coroner shrady. who took charge Of the
case. said that he had been told that the
Hempels had had a quarrel early in the
day, had made up n had quarrelled again
Hempel told him there was absolutely no
truth in that story, but that at times his
wife became very hysterical over the small
est thing. He told Coroner Shrady that
while she was in that condition she hac
often tried to take her life. once by trying
to jump in front of a train on the Brooklyn
Bridge.
ANOTHER WOMAN TRIES THE ELEVATED.
Mrs. Anna Ortowitz, 10 years old, Of $40
East Houston street, attempted TO commit
suicide yesterday morning by getting IN
front Of an uptown Second avenue elevated
train at Twenty-third street.
As the train pulled around the curve from
First avenue into Twenty-third street
the woman walked down the steps at the
east end of the platform and jumped to the
tracks. She stood between the rails, with
hands clasped and eyes raised. The motor
man TANNED on the brakes hard and the
train came TO a standstill within two feet
Of the woman.
Both platforms of the station were
>orowded at the time. Three women tainted.
Pau Spanton, a guard On the train, living
at 800 East 1C3l / street, jumped to the tracks
ana bore the woman struggling to the plat
form.
@Oh! Let me die! oh! Let me die" she
begged.
The guard held her until Policeman
Drys,r Of the East Twenty-second street
ST. tio1 appeared. He tool her to the
stallon house, where she cast herself down
on her knees before the sergeant, begging
that she might be allowed to die;
street station, where there is a matron,
and locked up.