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policemen emerged onto the roofs from
windows of the Raleigh.
The woman's body. terribly crushed,
lay across the corner of a skylight,
which had been broken by the impact.
Mrs. Sioussat is Of wealthy family
of Houston and her husbands family
has long been one of the most promi-
nent socially In Baltimore. At present
he is a professor of history in Phila-
delphia. He formerly was a member of
the faculty Of Sewanee University.
Mrs. Sioussat is survived by two sis
tiers, living in Lynchburg, Va; another
sister, Mrs. S. H. Scheduled of Mullins,
N. c., due to arrive here today for a
visit, and two brothers, William D.
Cleveland, jr., and Alexander sessum
Cleveland. large cotton factors and
wholesale grocers of Houston.
Friends here attributed Mrs. Sious-
salts act to physical suffering follow
ing an operation six months ago. Since
May, with the exception of one month,
she had been a patient at the Washing
ton Sanitarium. She left there october
6 and the same day registered ct the
Carlton Hotel. According to her nurse,
Miss Ethel Williams, she planned to
make her home here,
seeks Room hlgn up.
The first intimation of the impending
tragedy came last night when the Ic1l-
an entered the Raleigh Hotel and asked
H. B. Koontz, assistant manager, for a
room high up"
Charles Green, lo-year-old bellboy,
escorted her to a room On the seventh
floor. Green said she went to the VIM
dow and looked down and then asked
to be shown q more desirable room
higher up.
Accordingly he took her to the tenth
floor. where, after again gazing out of
the window, she seemed satisfied and
told the bellboy that she would come
down in a Few minutes and register.
Green returned to the desk. He be-
came apprehenSive at the woman'S long
delay and suggested that a telephone
call be made to her room. No response
was received and Green went to the
tenth floor. Peering out, he saw Mrs.
Siousatt's body on the roof nine stories
below him.
The Emergency Hospital ambulance,
with Dr. I. Rutkoski. was summoned
The physician pronounced her dead of
a compound fracture of the skull, a
broken neck and other injuries.
Lieut.. Joseph c. Morgan Of the head
quarters homicide squad and Detectives
Arthur T. FINELY and Benjamin Kuehl-
ing arrived a few minutes later and
started an investigation.
A card bearing Mrs. SiouSSatt's name
and address at the Carlton were found
in her purse lying on the table of the
room. A clerk at that hotel viewed the
body at the morgue and definitely es-
tablished Mrs. SiouSSatts identity.
Letters and papers in her room at
the Carlton gave police the address of
her brother, William Cleveland, and he
was notified of her death.
Friends Offer Help.
Learning of her death through the
morning newspapers, Hampson Gary,
local attorney, and E. Pendleton Turner.
both old friends of her family, offered
their services in any way they could be
useful.
Mr.. Gary said that one of Mrs.
Sioussat's brothers, Alexander Sessum
Cleveland, was named for Bishop Ses-
sum of Louisiana, an intimate friend.
Although police said that they had
little doubt as to the manner in which
Mrs. Sioussatt came to her death, Cor
oner j. Ramsay hewitt ordered an in
quest for this morning at 1880 o'clock.
For the past five years Mrs. Sioussatt
had had no settled home, travelling ex-
tensively in Europe and this country.
She is said to have intended to estab-
lish a permanent residence here.