New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-30
Wife of Magistrate Leaped
from the Rochambeau's
Deck in Mid-OCean.
pApENTS, AT PIER,
TOLD OF TRAGEDY
.uo, Victim of Melancholia,
Had Been War Nurse for
Last ~ Months.

v.a. Of the tragic death Of Mrs.
v,.,,-et Corriran. wife Of Magistrate
- = Corrcan. who leaped from
-. 5e,l q thc Rochamhesu. in mid
., on che night Of january -.
.,,,hed THIS city Yesterday when the
gr,nch liner locked.
The braut o. the blow was received
1, n, rerents of ;he girl when. wait
..,op the picy for her. they got hint
The tragedy from the ships purser.
r,,serick Z stone. the father, then led
-, wife in:o .he stewardess's rooms
"a eertly told her what had happened.
Magistrate Corrirau beGsn a months
~..,,io, three days ago. and because
"a change @: plans could not be
...,ses fsr s. time. lie was found later
d. ,se Bsr Association. whore he was
,.,,,rirc some affairs before depart
~, Tor BIS orange plantation on the
Florida wos; coast
Ms. CorriCan wrote me two weeks
90, .la, she wss very ill and that she
riss, come home on the Roohambeau,"
,,,s Magistrate Corr,ean. If she de-
,ss.s 70 return on the Rochambeau, she
90 she would write me in order that
Knight meet her suppose that the
.,,,u,;on o. the mails on the other
sic sen: her letter astray. l cannot
s.Hsye that .hls terrible news IS true.
Ian still hoping tha; some mistake has
bee, made"
Ms Coz. gar Rad suffered from mel
,eboNa ever since the death Of their
oily child, four years ago. 1t was in
he hope ot finding distraction from
u, troubles that she went 10 France
as nurse, q preparatory training in
v.i,h she bad taken before the birth
o,hsr child N order the better to care
icl 4;
b., he voyage was q failure. Be
fore sailing Tor home on January IL
Ms Corr.Can wrote her parents that
,ss was wreck physically and ner-
vors'y For nineteen months She had
hsoret In the hospitals and among
,ts wounded soldiers. but without the
s,oed for escape from her own grief.
q, board the Rochambeau Mrs. Cor
rrtr kent closely 20 her cabin. She
h3 her meals sent 20 her, and went on
tex only when the other passengers
we've q. their meals. On the evening
Il. disappeared she summoned the
,.svI.aess and ordered her dinner On
the ,s,urn Of the stewardess she asked
Z TIE deck was clear.
YES; everybody IS IN the dining
s2.oor." Was the reply
"Iaea | think III go up and get
..a.e az" seid Ms Corrlgan.
A. hour later the stewardess re-
tsrrsi TO find the dinner untouched and
Me- Corrigar gone Recalling the con-
,uusd depression Of Mrs. Corrigan'
she hurried on deck, She was not 10 be
.ourG 4 search % the snip proved
that Mrs Corr gan had leaped over
losrd
On the table with her untasted din
reI Mrs Corr gan had left money and
note, asking that the stewardess dis
tribute d, among those who had served
her upon the trip.
Mrs. Corrgar was born at Dobbs
Ferry snd was thirty-hve years old.
sac was married % Magistrate CORR
gar in 1905.
Many young girls in this city-some
O. then row happily married-owed
much 20 her Although not possessed
9. riches, she did little charity
among struggling art students and art
iTs models She was d constant visitor
a. he Art Workers Club for Women,
vieIe these young girls gathered, and
her purse was always open 10 the
rssty. Her charity did not end there,
.or many o. The girls, who had neither
friends nor relatives here, she enter
1lled al her home. Every week until
tie death Of her child she presided at
he Ar, Workers Clubs Friday after
Loon tea.