Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

from Fairy Grove, an excursion kcsort onthe river six miles from Baltimore; It was her 22d birthday anuivereary, and she gpenaed-fiappy as a bird as she floated upward and kissed her hand to her husband and the cheering crowd of several hundred people below. Iff descending the parachute appeared to work well, but<she was 'too long in cutting loose and was over the river when she began to descend. As soon as she touched the water the parachute closed upon her. In her struggles to extricate herself she was drowned before assistance could reach .her. Miss Georgie Brock, beautiful, an heiress, and a society favorite on the West Side at New York, w as arrested Tuesday for the theft of silk dresses worth $3,000. which were taken from the houses of neighbors. In the same connection the police took into custody her sister Florence. They are the daughters of Henry Brock, president of the Brock Commercial Agency.l Georgie is 21 years old; Florence is only 12. The detectives searched for the trunk containing-the .dresses. They located it at a storage warehouse, and while they were there Miss Block 'entered and ordered it sent to' another address. The girl rt-aiiily gcvr’ rp tlie key to tlie polii'e, and when the trunk was opened all the stolen goods were found. Georgie Brock was phiFSd“und<'f~arrest. Thff~girT~crleff and accused her 12-year-old sister of the thefts. The latter's name was Flossie, and she said she stole the goods to wear at a ghost party. The elder girl is engaged to marry E. W. RobiuSfin, of Elmira, N. Y., and he said he would settle all the bills for the stolen goods. Both girls were held in SI,OOO bonds to the grand jury. Their'parents'arc-crushed by the disgrace, but claim it was only a child’s prank.