The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-18
. SUBWAY CARS Ran OVER her
MERELY SPOILING MISS HIRD-
CASTLES CLOTHES.
she Feli FraSn seNenty-secand street Plat
tarm aud Ever one Was SURF she
Was Dead DlgEiRess Cansed Her 10
Fan Despite . Rough Riders Arm

FaIl Despite . Rough Riders Arm
/ A young woman drnppsd N IN. Sew.
eniy -sscond street. subway platform yes.
terday afternoon in front ~ a train. ant
the two cara that I,asss,,l over her did ~
more than crush her hat and tear fsw
rents in her clothing
She wa, Edith Hardca~ile. p years
old. the daughter 10 Frank llardcastle %
! ilar'lCaStle 4 fiesi. dealers in underNear
~ ~ Bre-ne strsg' In the Wssi Side
/ pnlice court, a prisoner IN the charge III
attempted suicide. Miss lIardcastle said
that she was taken with dc ~ dizziness
a. she stood near the margin 0f the plat
I form.
Misc Hardcastle attracted the attention
uf several persnns who were on the station
platform a. i2.9D yesterday afternoon
She was wearing white dreas aud a white
straw hat, and her manner serned a.
Indicate nervousness
Edwin Emerson. Rough Rider from
Texas. was standing next Ia her a. an
express trans lights appeared a. the
uptown end 10 the station Eusrs1n
u0iic'-d her swaying near the edge and
graspsd her arm When the head ~ the
train was al,Out a hundred feet from where
they were standing Emerson saws that shr
drew away and toppled into the roadbe,l
with her fac. down Her head va.
toward the approlching train.
Apparently Mis-. Hardoastla was
stunned by The fail Tor She Law still ~
a. r. Bleeker. The motorman GA the ey.
pres. threw on the emergency brake
ny the time the train came 10 a halt two
cars had PASSED over her A pOlioeman
ssut in a call FOE an ambulance. bat those
who saw her fall thought there was NJ
doubt that she had bsen killed Instantly.
The tuinmen went alung the cans look
ing Tor her body Under the first car
was a tatGered scrap u straw that had
been her hat Beneath the reaT platform
nf the second car Miss Hardcastls W,us
| found. unconscious When they lifted
Z her to the platform and carried her mp
stairs they were astonished 10 find that
she was apparently uninjur.d. The ~.
animation Of DR. Knapp from Flower
| Hospital Confirmed this She was bruised
and scratched little. bat there was moth
| ing for the surgeon 10 do.
The news u theaccident was kept from
I the girls mother who was in the family =
apartment AZ the Hotel Regent. Seven
! tieth street and Broadway Her brother
| was told about IL and he went 90 the West
Sixty eighth street station house with a
supply u fresh clothing. Her father
came In time 10 60 with her 20 the police
court
| Mr. Haricastle told Magistrate Harris
that his daughter had not been in the best
AZ health and that they had expected 20
take her away. There was no reason,
he said for an attempt NJ suicide.
Edwin Emerson thought be- heard
some me in the crowd AZ the station de-
clare that he had pushed her % He went
4 night down to the District Attorney :
ofiice and told Mr. Whitman that h. could
always h. depended upon 20 come iOrwa NJ
II he was wanted Mr. Emerson also in
terested himself sufficiently in the case O.
notify the newspapers that any intim1ti0n
I that Miss Hartclstle had tried Ia kill
herself was without foundation.