NEWPORT — The woman rescued Thursday from the rocky shore about 50 feet below the Cliff Walk has been identified as Judith Corrigan, 46, of Terre Haute, Ind., the police said yesterday.

At about 7:15 p.m. Thursday, someone on the seaside path that runs along some of the city’s fabled mansions called for help after spotting the woman in the water below the walk behind Ochre Court estate, which lies just south of the 40 Steps on Narragansett Avenue and is now part of Salve Regina University.

Two officers descended the steep cliff and pulled her from the water. Firefighters then lifted her from the rocks.

The woman was taken to Newport Hospital before being moved to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, police Lt. William Fitzgerald said last week. Fitzgerald said that Corrigan has been reported to be in a coma.

Newport police were contacted Sunday by Middletown police, who received information about the missing woman, according to a police news release yesterday . Family members contacted the Newport police and the woman was identified.

The police last week were not certain how the woman ended up in the water. The news release said only that the severe injuries were consistent with falling and landing on rock.

“We’re not going to release any particular information, but it’s not suspicious,” said Fitzgerald.

He said that the family knew Corrigan had been staying in Middletown and saw media reports about the unidentified woman found at the bottom of the Cliff Walk with critical injuries. That prompted a relative to contact police in Rhode Island.

While the police have identified the victim, the hospital is still not releasing her condition, according to spokeswoman Nancy Cawley. The hospital is still awaiting formal identification of the victim, such as a visit by next of kin.

The 3½-mile scenic walk, some of it rocky and narrow, has been the site of serious mishaps before.

In 2000, Simcha Berman, then 23, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was paralyzed in a fall off the Cliff Walk. In 2003, he filed a $6-million claim with the City of Newport.

In 1999, two people dove from the Cliff Walk into water below and one of the young men, Michael Gray, of Newport, was injured when he struck a submerged rock.

In August 1991, Bryant College (now Bryant University) student Michael Cain, 21, was killed when he accidentally fell from the Cliff Walk. He had lived in Barrington for several years.

—With reports from Journal staff writer Rich Salit

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