The Sunday Mirror reported that Mrs. Vardl Wilkie, 29, had succumbed at Bellevue Hospital to the injuries she had sustained a week earlier when she fell or jumped in front of a subway train at the IND station at Houston and Second Avenue in Manhattan. Mrs. Wilkie, who resided at 36 East 3rd Street, had fractured her skull and suffered a brain concussion in the incident. Her right hand had been amputated.
Her husband had shipped off with the Navy two weeks earlier.