Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-11-19 | Page 1 | Woman Leaps 7 Floors to Death

I W WOMAN MAN LEAPS I 1 I 1 FLOORS 10 F B ay ay- ay 2 i r j i Department Store Is Iz Thrown Into Panic CHICAGO Nov 19 AP AP-An AP An unidentified un identified woman expensively at attired attired attired at- at tired tired and carrying in 1000 1000 bills in in hr har purse leaped from a seventh floor balcony of Marshall Field A Cos Co's store today killing herself and injuring ng a saleswoman and and anda a University of Wisconsin student student stu stu- student dent as her body crashed through a showcase on on tI the e main mam floor thronged with Saturday shoppers The injured student was Kenneth Clowe l of Madison Wis whose neck was gashed by the womans woman's b heel heel eel He was here to attend the the o Chica Chicago Wisconsin WIsconsin football game A Asit sit saleswoman s 's struck ruck by the falling bOd body suffered a crushed chest and possible internal injuries and three other othel men customers were hit by the tile body but were unhurt The woman about old and weighing about pounds for several severa da days s 's had had lunch in Inthe tIle the restaurant on the tile seventh floor which faces the tIle balcony from which she Jumped Upward of 1000 diners were in the tile r restaurant but few saw her leave her table and go goto goto to the railing and le leap p over o On the main floor shoppers hoppers were thrown into a panic as the tIle body trashed crashed through th tho o showcase se knocking down a saleswoman Many w onion screamed earned and one or two swooned before thc section was roped off oft and the shoppers were quieted by