Notes:
Easton Daily Express, Friday, April 12, 1807
Miss Sox Meant What She Wrote
Finding of Her Body in Lehigh Clears Up Mystery of South Side
Girls Disappearance
Twenty-three days after her disappearance from her home, 742
Grant street, the body of Miss Rebecca Sox, the young woman
who left notes saying she would drown herself by jumping from
the suspension bridge into the Lehigh river was found floating
in the water about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon by a gang
of men who were working at William Coyle's coal year, along
Dock Street.
A boat was secured and the body was towed to the foot of South
Fourth Street where it was identied by a half-brother of the
deceased, Harry Sox. The body was badly decomposed.
When the news that the body had been found became known about
town, people from all sections hurried to the riverbank. Coroner
Schliecher decided it was no necessary to hold an inquest.
Before leaving her home on the 19th of last March the young
woman appeared in the best of spirits and until the notes were
found, the second day after her disappearance, the family had
no idea of her whereabouts. In one of her sad missives Miss
Sox referred to Mrs. Jessie Linn, a South Side woman, as "the
cause of it all." In another she planned the arrangements
for her funeral and said she hoped to see her relatives in
Heaven.
The unfortunate girl was 17 years of age. She had been employed
at Simon's silk mill, and on the day she committed suicide
she asked some of her fellow-employees to remember her with
flowers, as she intended ending her life.
The suspension bridge from which the girl is supposed to have
thrown herself is about 130 feet above the water. The idea
of the girl jumping form the bridge was scouted by many, but
the position of the clothing about the body indicated that
she had done just what she said she would do.
Deceased was a daughter of Mrs. Mary and the Late George Sox.
She is survived by her mother, a sister, Mrs. Harry Hopper;
a brother Arthur Sox and two step-brothers, Lafayette Sox and
Harry Sox.
The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon from the late
home of the unfortunate girl on the South Side and will be
strictly private. |
