Show SOUGHT BOUGHT DEATH IN THE RIVER iIO of a woman who W ill do and Friend friendlee les when you receive this I 1 ahall be d dead md I 1 am m tired i aln my cheat chest and terrific cough weary with struggle left batchel i et got money could repay I 1 li e blo unfortunate BELLE E X this was nil till that the water had bad left legible of bf the note nn an unfortunate woman had written in attempted justification of liet het suicide I 1 11 isabella katon eato ward wai wivi one of those butterflies who flit carelessly through lift life regardless of the As long as ah everything went smoothly she rho was as happy but when tho the man whom she claimed as her husband disappeared without S telling her of his afy destination andr without leaving her any money she became tl despondent pon dent and resolved to die she ISABELLA EATON WARD boarded a ferryboat going from new york to long island city just before the sill was reached she walked unobserved to the lh rear rail and jumped off the cold embrace of tho the river revived within her the instinct of self preservation and her screams attracted the attention ol 01 the captain of a passing steamer to a bundle of female clothes ballooned up and drifting his ilis prompt efforts tc to rescue the afman woman cost her her life for the swash caused by stopping and backing the boat expelled the air from beneath lica clothes and caused her to sink immedi abely it is said that the young womans comans parents are wealthy Missour missourians ians hei husband Is believed to have gone to au aws the despondency v which aich eventually led to suicide nas was aggravated by a seven attack of the grip |