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Show Tosses Baby to Death, Then Jumps Herself New York. A golden-haired baby girl with a doll clutched In her arms was tossed from a sixth-floor window to her death by her own mother, who then flung herself from the snme window win-dow to die on the stones below. The mother was young Mrs. Elizabeth Eliza-beth Levine, who had recently suf-ered suf-ered a breakdown. The mother was seen to enter the Marbrldge Hall apartment building in Brooklyn leading the daughter, Kuth, two and half year? old, by the hand. "Hurry," the mother was heard to say as the baby lagged. "Hurry, we have no time to lose." And the two climbed slowly up the stairs from floor to floor, the one intent in-tent only on death and the other cuddling cud-dling her china doll In innocence of the fate awaiting her. The mother and child were seen to reach the sixth floor, the little girl was heard to scream In terror as her mother's plan first became evident to her, and nn open window told the rest of the story to those who rushed into the hall and found It empty. ' The child, lying among the fragments frag-ments of her doll's painted head and still clutching the stuffed body In her arms, was dead. The mother died on the way to a hospital. |