June 23, 1916

RESCUE MRS. BUSTANOBY

Restaurateur's Wife, in Hysteria, Taken from Window Ledge

A scantly-dressed woman, screaming while she hung by her hands from a window ledge on the fourth floor of the building at 1845 Broadway, on the first floor of which is Bustanoby's Cafe de la Paix, attracted the attention of Patrolman O'Hallorhan of the West Ninety-Eighth Street Station earlly yesterday morning. A crowd quickly gathered and O'Hallorhan went to the fourth floor, while two citizens went to the third floor, in a window just beneath the dangling woman. O'Hallorhan loosened her fingers and she dropped into the arms of the men leaning out of the third story window.

Dr. Smith of the Polyclinic Hospital attended the woman and pronounced her suffering from hysteria. When she recovered the police say she told them she was the wife of Jacques Bustanoby, proprietor of the restaurant. She said she had been feeling ill and leaning out of the window to get fresh air had lost her balance.

The blotter at the police station read "Mrs. John Bustanoby, 1845 Broadway, 35 years old, rescued window ledge fourth floor above address by Patrolman Matthew O'Hallorhan. Husband, John claims that while looking out window she lost balance, fell, grasping window ledge. Attended at home, hysteria.

At the restaurant, it was said that Mr. Bustanoby was not in the city, having left yesterday morning. It was said that Mrs. Bustanoby had recovered.

Note: See the different version of this story in the article, "Bustanoby, Papa of New York Cafe Society"