Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1902 — ELLA CROPSEY’S ‘BODY FOUND. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ELLA CROPSEY’S ‘BODY FOUND.

Mystery of Young Woman’s Disappearance Partly Cleared. The mystery .of the disappearance of Miss Ella Cropsey, who left her home Nov. 20, was partly cleared Friday by

the finding by two fishermen of her body in the Pasquotank river, opposite the family residence, at Elizabeth City, N. C. The disappearance of the young woman attracted much attention. There were many who maintained that Miss Cropsey

did not vanish of her own volition, and had no cause, ns she seemed to have done, to walk out of her home near midnight, hatless and half shod. Three persons organized a committee which conducted the search of the river, in which its members believed her body was. They incited her father, Justice Cropsoy, to cause the arrest of James Wilcox, the girl’s admirer, who visited her on the night she disappeared and who was with her on the veranda of the Cropsey house within an hour of the time when her disappearance became known to her family.

ELLA CROPSEY.