New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15
WOMAN KILLED
IN S-STORY LEAP
Daughter of Louisville
Banker, Skull Fractured,
Dies in Ambulance.
OPPRESSED BY HEAT,
SEEKS ROOF OF LOFT
Nerve Illness She Came to Cure
Caused Act-Mother and Sis
tiers Killed In Wreck.

Miss Elizabeth yenley, attractlveiy
dressed and of refined appearance. the
daughter OF Louisville bank president
jumped from the roof Of the eight-story
loft building at 80 West Eighth Street
last night, was picked up unconscious
and died while being taken to st, VIM
cents Hospital Nervous trouble. for
which she has been undergoing treat
ment here, and the heat were response
bic for her act, which detectives declare
was deliberate.
Shortly before 6 o'clock Miss Fenley,
who is thirty-one years old. entered the
building and made her way 10 the rooi'
Here she stood only long enough TO lay
on the stairway her hat and copy OF
Alice's Browns prize play, Children OF
Earth" Then she walked 10 the edge
and threw herself off. She dropped
into the vacant lot between the lou
building and 35 West Eighth Street.
Here an excavation has been dug
the bottom of which Is some distance
below the street leve.. Miss Fenley
Law on her back. ner ewes closed
Although a high tin slgnboard pre-
vented passers by from seeing the falI'
neighbors who were at thciT windows
noticed the woman "a she dropped:
Among them was Harry Myborg, IN 80
West Eighth Street He rushed from
his home, scaled the signboard with
ladder and entered the lot.
Dies in Ambulance.
He found Miss Fenley gasping for
breath. He called to his mother, VINO
handed him some wet rags and bottle
of smelling salts. With these Myborg
attempted to revive the woman. He
was at his work when Patrolman "a
sidy appeared. He summoned an am
buance from ST. Vincent's Hospital, IN
charge of DR.. Ryan.
A large. square hole had TO be cut
in the signboard before Miss Fe1ley
could be removed from the lot. She
died in the ambulance. DR.. Ryan SAID
her death had been caused by a tract
ured skull and a fractured spine. Her
body was not marked by the fall.
IL was more than an hour before
Miss Fenley was identified. and then
through a memorandum which she car
red in her handbag. This, believed to
have been written by a Louisville
physician. bore the name of DR.. Pritch
ard. nerve specialist, and gave as
his address l43 West Seventy
Street. In the handbag, which was OF
costly make, were found also sl5, keys
and toilet necessities.
DR.. William Pritchard was found at
143 West Seventy-second Street and
notified of the death. He sent Miss
Edith Hebb, who had been nursing the
young woman for the last six weeks,
to identify the body in St. Vincents
Hospital
Banke, Father Told.
According to DR.. Pritchard. Miss Fen
ley's father is Oscar Fenley, president
of the Kentucky National Bank, OF
Louisville, Ky. The physician said the
woman had come TO him six weeks ago:
suffering from a nervous allment, ana
had been under his care. He thought
the heat had also affected her mind,
and caused her to jump from the roof;
but he was unable to tell how she had
reached the loft building
The specialist said an aunt of Miss
Fenley had left the Pennsylvania Sta
ton at o'clock yesterday afternoon
and that the woman who killed herself
and Miss Hebb had accompanied the
aunt to the station. Miss Fenley ex-
planned that she intended to go down,
town to do some shopping. Beyond
that he could not say where she had
been during the afternoon. He notited
the girls father of her death by tele-
graph.
Miss Fenley was extensively dressed
in a blue taffeta dress. She wore tan
and black pumps. and her hat, which
had an ostrich plume. was OF GOOD
quality. She was about five feet tall
and weighed 40 pounds. She had a
light complexion, chestnut hair and
gray eyes.