Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1915 — SEARCHERS FIND ANNA CASEY BODY [ARTICLE]

SEARCHERS FIND ANNA CASEY BODY

Remains of Women Who Jumped From Lafayette Bridge Found Near Durgee’s Run. Lafayette Journal. The body of Miss Anna Casey, who jumped from the Main street bridge about 2:30 o’clock on Sunday morning, Oct. 3, was rescued from the Wabash river near Durgee’s Run Friday morning by Fr a nk and Wm. O’Connor, who had been searching for the body for several days. They had been lifting some brush in the river bed and shortly after noticed the body floating down stream. It is their opinion that it had become lodged in the brush and started to float when the brush was lifted. The coroner found that the right leg had been broken, supposedly in the fall from the bridge. (Miss Casey had been employed for twenty years a s a waitress 'at the Hotel Lahr. She had been in ill health since April, and her mind was affected.