Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-18
SEEK COMPANION
|NDEATH OF GIRL
| AFTER BRIDGE FALL
Police Study Theory In.
identified Victim Was
Thrown From Key Span.
COUPLE SEEN LEAVING
CAR AT BATH AND M SITS.
Young Woman Struggles With
Would-be Rescuer, Who Re-
ported Tragedy to Police.


identify the body of an attractive
auburn haired young woman who fell
l20 feet TO her death early this morning
from Key Bridge, near the Virginia
side, police are searching for an un-
known man believed to have been with
her. Doubt was cast on an early theory
that the girl was thrown to her death
in the face OF story that she
struggled with a man and threw him
into the water from a canoe when he
attempted to pull her from the water
but Coroner Nevitt said he would issue
no certificate In the case pending an
investiga
The man was seen leaving a street
car with the girl at Thirty-fourth and
M streets and both were seen walking
along the bridge toward the Virginia
side a short time before the tragedy.
The body is at the District Morgue.
No Marks Of Identification.
The girl, who the coroner said was
about Is or II years old, was approxi-
mately feet inches in height, weigh
ing about 100 pounds. and wore bright
yellow dress with flesh-colored hose and
black and white shoes and had on a
black silk coat and no hat. With the
exception of plain signet ring on the
second finger OF the right hand, there
were no other identifying marks on the
girls body or about her person. The
only possible mark of violence on the
body was bruise under her chin.
According to George Stuart, 2l-year-
old truck driver of Bon Air Heights, Va,
who heard the woman'S screams as she
struck the water near a canoe in which
ne was sleeping and who later recovered
the body floating near the bridge on
the Virginia side, the girl put up a
terrific struggle in the water when
and inflicted long scratches in his right
arm with her finger nails and pulled
him out of his canoe. Stuart, who was
taken TO the seventh precinct station
house for questioning and later released,
told police he was asleep in his canoe a
short distance from the spot where the
girls body landed in the water and was
pulled himself together and padded to
her side and reached over to pull her in
the canoe. He succeeded in grabbing
hold Of her but she struggled so fiercely
that in his attempt TO drag her towards
the canoe he tore her silk coat almost
of Of her and believes he must have
bruised her body considerably. He
sought to Subdue her but she broke
loose and in few moments sank out
Of sight. Stuart said he then padded
back to the bridge steps and ran up
Key Bridge toward Georgetown to
notify police.
Body Recovered Later.
Stuart told his story to Policeman
w. e. Lawson Of the seventh precinct.
who was standing on the corner of
Thirty-fourth and M streets, who called
police Of the harbor precinct and took
Stuart to the seventh precinct station
for questioning. The harbor police
dragged in the vicinity for some time.
but with no avail, and it was nearly four
hours later before the body was found
by Stuart, who returned to the scene
after being released by police and
searched for the body in a canoe. He
turned the body over to the harbor
police.
Investigation disclosed that the girl
was remembered by Conductor Manley
T. Iden of the Capital Traction Co. as
having boarded his Georgetown-bound
street car at Fifteenth street and New
York avenue and handed him a trans
fer from the Fourteenth street division.
Iden said he did not recall ever having
seen the girl before and could not say
whether or not anyone was with her
when she boarded his car.
He said he remembered her having
asked the motorman as she left the
car at Thirty-fourth and M streets If
the last car to RosSyln had left and
when told that it had not, inquired the
time Of its departure from the bridge.
The body was identified after its re-
covery by Policeman Lawson, Iden and
taxicab driver as the woman seen by
them leaving the street car in George
town, and while the three men also
said they observed a man alight with
her, none could say whether the couple
went along the bridge with each other
or went separately.
bag of lunch found in the river
beside the girls body led police to be-
lieve that she had been employed as q
waitress In some Washington lunchroom
and was taking the lunch to her home.