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Show STRUGGLE TO SAVE WOMAN FROM DEATH NEW YORK, April 10. A thrilling struggle lo save a mad w'-ima-i from suicide occurred tonight on tho ledge of tho fifth-story window of the Hospital for Women. The woman. . Mrs, Npra llickoy, 28 years old, was finally saved from jumping to the str by. tho pluck of a doctor and a nurse and the help of the fire department. Mrs. Hickcv became suddenly insane tonight and thrust iter feet tnrough the heavy plate glass wimlo v panes in her ward. Through the jagged lin'os she pushed her body, cutting herself frightfully, fright-fully, aud crept, to the edge of the sill. She was about to jump when Dr. Cranston Cran-ston Conklin and Nurso McDonald caught her by tho arms.- Tho woman i was dangling in the .nr, resisting ros-cuo ros-cuo with insano fury. A fire alarm was turned in and ladders, lad-ders, wero run i.p aud ihe wo'man earned ear-ned to safety by the firemen. |