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The passers by at the corner of Shawmut ave. and West Dedham st. about 9 o'clock last night were horrified to see a woman with an infant in her arms strike the sidewalk in front of the four-story brick building numbered 366 Shawmut ave. The woman was Mrs. Susan Sewall, and the child her infant daughter, Grace M., nine months old. Both are dead. The woman struck on her head and shoulders and her skull was crushed like an egg shell. She lived but a few moments after striking the sidewalk
Dr. Fernald had been hurriedly summoned, and found her pulse beating faintly, but all was soon over. The child fell under the woman, and received a concussion of the brain, compound fracture of the right shoulder, right hip and wrist. From all that could be learned the woman made a deliberate and successful attempt at self-destruction.
The husband of the woman, W.H. Sewall, was taken into custody by an officer and locked up at station 5 on suspicion, and to await an examination by the court. The Sewalls have been married for nearly two years, but of late have lived unhappily and quarrels have been frequent. It is said that they had a quarrel but a few moments before Mrs. Sewall committed her rash act, and that the husband had left the room in a rage and had gone, as she thought, from the building. Boston Daily Advertiser, 29 June 1892.²