Charlotte Oberver, Monday
Mrs. A.A. Barron, whose miraculous escape from death after a fall from the tenth story of Hotel Charlotte started the city Thursday, yesterday revealed details of the spectacular plunge for the first time.
Mrs. Barron, who is steadily improving at the Charlotte Sanatorium, is permitted to see only a few close friends, but to her husband, a well-known specialist here, and to her physicians, she said yesterday that she remembers nothing from the time she fell out of the window until she hit the sidewalk in front of the hotel after crashing through the strong iron mesh and glass covering of the hotel’s marquee.
How Accident Happened
She was attempting to move a heavy flower box, packed with dirt, from the inner to the outer ledge of her window, she told Dr. Barron, when the unwieldy object tilted outwardly. Impulsively she reached for the box.
“The only thing I remember,” said Mrs. Barron, “after I felt the box tilting on the window sill, was that I tried to catch it to keep it from falling. I have no recollection of anything else except being picked up and taken to the hospital.”
Kept Her Senses
When picked up in front of the hotel, Mrs. Barron was told that she had suffered a fall in her room, but she was in full possession of her mental faculties and replied, “You can’t fool me. I know I fell out of the window.”
The young woman, whose room at the hospital is filled with flowers, told her husband yesterday she had been feeling dizzy for a day or two prior to the accident, but had said nothing to him about it, thinking that the attacks which came at infrequent intervals, would soon leave her for good.
Dr. Barron, however, believes that Mrs. Barron may have experienced sudden dizziness while working with her flower box and was unaware of the fact that she might have been leaning from the window.
From page 9 of the Messenger and Intelligencer, Wadesboro, N.C., May 20, 1926
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