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May 16, 1910
Newark Evening Star And Newark Advertiser
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey
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Miss Hilma Loven, a 23-year-old domestic servant, was mysteriously killed on New York City's Sixth Avenue elevated tracks at 31st Street. Her body was found midway between stations, possibly after falling from a train while lost and trying to reach her brother's home.
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MADISON GIAL IS MYSTERIOUSLY KILLED ON "1"
New York Police Find Her Body on Tracks Midway Between Stations.
MADISON, May 16.-Miss Hilma Loven, 23, was mysteriously killed on the Sixth avenue elevated road at Thirtyfirst street, New York city, early today.
The victim was a domestic servant employed by I. B. Morris, a banker, at 45 Wall Street, Manhattan, whose summer home is here.
The young woman's body remained on the tracks for several hours until it was seen from the street at daylight. The identification of the body was made by the police after it had been removed to the West Thirtieth street station house. In a purse the police found a receipt showing that a sum of money had recently been sent to Finland, and a return ticket on the Lackawanna from Hoboken to this place. The address of Nicholas Loven, of 29 Coenties slip, New York, was also found in the purse, and the police sent for him.
A newsboy passing under the structure a few feet north of Thirty-first street found a woman's skirt between the trolley tracks. He looked overhead to see if it had fallen from the elevated tracks and then rushed to the Tenderloin station house.
As the scene of the woman's death was halfway between the station located at Twenty-eighth street and the one at Thirty-third street, the police were at a loss to know how she reached the structure unless she had fallen from a train. The agents on duty at each of the stations insisted that they had not seen any passenger walk from the platform, and neither one could remember that the young woman had passed through the door at his station.
Nicholas Loven said that his sister had come to New York to visit him and that she must have lost her way. She was not acquainted with the city, he said, and was unable to speak English. He insisted there was no reason for her to commit suicide, and said that he thought she had become confused in her effort to locate his home, and in a desperate effort to get off the train, which was taking her in a direction away from his home and away from the ferry to Hoboken, had stepped from the platform of the rear car.
New York Police Find Her Body on Tracks Midway Between Stations.
MADISON, May 16.-Miss Hilma Loven, 23, was mysteriously killed on the Sixth avenue elevated road at Thirtyfirst street, New York city, early today.
The victim was a domestic servant employed by I. B. Morris, a banker, at 45 Wall Street, Manhattan, whose summer home is here.
The young woman's body remained on the tracks for several hours until it was seen from the street at daylight. The identification of the body was made by the police after it had been removed to the West Thirtieth street station house. In a purse the police found a receipt showing that a sum of money had recently been sent to Finland, and a return ticket on the Lackawanna from Hoboken to this place. The address of Nicholas Loven, of 29 Coenties slip, New York, was also found in the purse, and the police sent for him.
A newsboy passing under the structure a few feet north of Thirty-first street found a woman's skirt between the trolley tracks. He looked overhead to see if it had fallen from the elevated tracks and then rushed to the Tenderloin station house.
As the scene of the woman's death was halfway between the station located at Twenty-eighth street and the one at Thirty-third street, the police were at a loss to know how she reached the structure unless she had fallen from a train. The agents on duty at each of the stations insisted that they had not seen any passenger walk from the platform, and neither one could remember that the young woman had passed through the door at his station.
Nicholas Loven said that his sister had come to New York to visit him and that she must have lost her way. She was not acquainted with the city, he said, and was unable to speak English. He insisted there was no reason for her to commit suicide, and said that he thought she had become confused in her effort to locate his home, and in a desperate effort to get off the train, which was taking her in a direction away from his home and away from the ferry to Hoboken, had stepped from the platform of the rear car.
What sub-type of article is it?
Mystery
Tragedy
What themes does it cover?
Misfortune
Tragedy
What keywords are associated?
Mysterious Death
Elevated Train
New York
Lost Immigrant
Accidental Fall
What entities or persons were involved?
Hilma Loven
I. B. Morris
Nicholas Loven
Where did it happen?
Sixth Avenue Elevated Road At Thirtyfirst Street, New York City
Story Details
Key Persons
Hilma Loven
I. B. Morris
Nicholas Loven
Location
Sixth Avenue Elevated Road At Thirtyfirst Street, New York City
Event Date
May 16
Story Details
Miss Hilma Loven was found dead on elevated tracks midway between stations, possibly after falling from a train while lost trying to reach her brother's home in New York; police puzzled by how she reached the spot, brother insists it was an accident not suicide.