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Show TWO VOUNC WOMEN TRY TO END THEIR LIVES THEY PLUNGE INTO WATERS ABOUT NEW YORK CITY. Both Fight Desperately Against Being Rescued, One Declaring She Wanted to Die. New York. Jan. 18. Two young wo men plunged Into the waters about New York yesterday and both of them fought desperately against being rescued. res-cued. Tho first, who gave the name of Albertina de Cour, said that she fell off a pier at the Battery by accident, ac-cident, this notwithstanding the fact that she struggled to ward off her rescuers res-cuers later. A soldier station at Fort Word is the man who dragged her into in-to shallow water, barely in time to Bave her life. The other young woman, named Janette Dalton, made a deliberate effort ef-fort to end her life by jumping into the Hudson, river at the foot of West 2Gth street. Watchmen saw her leap nnd put forth boat hooks for her to clutch, but she warded them off and it was necessary to entangle her clothing cloth-ing to drag her ashore At a hospital she said she -was a seamstress, "tired of life and ready to die." |