PLUNGES TO DEATH

Shannon News, 24 September 1926, Page 3

PLUNGES TO DEATH

AS HUSBAND SLEEPS. TOLD OF PLAN IN NOTE.' While her husband lay asleep in an adjoining room Mrs. Maude UV oods, 50 years old, jumped to death from the rear of her apartment at 166 West Eighty-seventh Street, New York, to the courtyard, eight floors below. The thud of the striking body was heard by an elevator operator in a house in the rear of .the nine-storey apartment house La Jacquette, wheie the Woodses lived. This was about '5 o’clock in the morning. The elevator man saw the figure • clad in nightclothes lying in the adjoining courtyard, and called the West 100th Street Police, Station. The body was identified by a building employee of the Woods apartment house as the wife of W. R. Woods. The husband was notified, and after confirming the identification was prostrated with grief.

Dr. Brown, of Knickerbocker Hospital .was called, but Mrs. Woods was dead when he arrived. He said that practically every bone in her body was broken by tho plunge. , _ According to the husband, who is in the storage warehouse business, hia wife had been suffering from a nervous ailment for two years, and seldom has been left alone. One of the apartment house employees said the Woodses had daughter, but Mr. Woods was griefstricken and refused to speak aft-.-* : telling of his wife’s nervous condition On the dresser in Mrs. WoodsTs bedroom the police said the following pencilled note was found— » "My blessed husband,” it read, "forgive me for doing this terrible thing; but I am too sick and discouraged to carry on.- —Maude.” The police listed Mrs. Woods a suicide.