Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-12-23 | Page 8 | Woman Leaps 19 Stories to Death

WOMAN LEAPS 19 STORIES TO DEATH CHICAGO Dec 23 UP UP Nineteen Nineteen stories above State street where Christmas shoppers hurried through the rain Mrs Elizabeth Elizabcth Wait waft 39 leaped to her death The body was identified by Fred English a brother and George Wait a son several hours later They said there was illness in the Wait family and ind that Mrs Walt VaIl was despondent after aUer failing ailing to find work I IA A bundle of ot worn clothing was i clutched tinder her arm lIS i and she carried an empty empt poe pockett The parcel had been rn as tho though gh it was a 1 and the woman was able to to z j her way up to the floor oi oj building which building which has shops shoPS wh wit suspicion of ot her purpose For a moment she stood poi poise poJa the window ledge then jumped ing headfirst head 10 floors 10 to toa a z 2 screen on the ninth story 3 She was alive but when taken to the Iroquois Iroquois' ho hoa and died after transfer to SL St L hospital t