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CEMBER 9, 1936.KTO DEATH AFTER SISTERi !MISS BERNICE JONES LEAPS INTO THE KAW AT LAWRENCE.Six MonthstI Jones, aI Jumpedthe• •IAgo Miss Ethel Ann Teacher at K. I Into Stream From Same Bridge.triLawrence, Kas.—MLss Bernice Joneskilled herself here late Friday byleaping from the Kaw River bridge.She chose to end her life inthe same manner and at the same place where her sister, Miss Ethel Ann Jones, took her own life six months ago.Miss Ethel Ann Jones was an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas. The weight of her tasks was light beside the distress she suffered concerning her sister’s ill health. The morning of June 11. she walked from her quarters, went through Lawrence’s downtown streets to the bridge, and there, almost in the center of the span, she jumped from the west side to her death.Miss Bernice Jones, since that time, had been living in Kansas City. She went to her aunt. Mrs. Kate Foster, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. She was going for a walk and would stop by the library, she said. Instead she went to the union station in Kansas City, took a train that arrived in Lawrence at 4:42 o'clock, and walked onto the bridge.IIand a hymn book. The writing on the filing card read:Union station. Kansas City—I cannot live without my sister. Nobody is to blame for this except myself. My friends, my doctors, my relatives, all have been so kind to me, but can they know the agony of a lonely, breaking heart and the suffering I have endured since the loss of my sister?God will understand—and forgive me—I hope. If I am found I want to wear the blue chiffon dress in the largest Christmas box in my big trunk at Miss Tutcher’s—and some pink roses in my hand. Roses are so pure and lovely. Bernice Jones.The hymn contained a slip of paper marking a place. The slip read, Sing this for me.” The hymnit marked was O Love, That Wilt Not Let Me Go.”IBODY FOUND IN RIVER.A YOUTH FINDS HER PURSE.S1' IRobert Kirby, 16 years old, found her purse shortly after 5 o’clock. It lay in the bridge almost at the exact spot where Miss Ethel Ann Jones had left her purse when she jumped to her death. The youth took the purse home, found within it a note asking him to call Ray Wright, a Lawrence insurance man. To Mr. Wright he gave the purse and its contents.Within the purse was a filing card, filled with Miss Jones’s handwriting,Jude Anderson, chief of police, and another officer, Ralph Hubbel, went to the bridge and engaged two fishermen, Richard Higgins and Louis Belcher, to search for the body. Shortly before 7 o'clock Hubbel saw the body of Miss Jones floating near the dam waters at the east side of the bridge.The fishermen brought it to shore.As financial adviser of the sisters, Wright said he had aided them in making their wills. They had agreed, he said, that upon their deaths, they would establish a fund amounting to approximately $22,000 to aid needy students through the medical school of the University of Kansas. Miss Ethel Ann Jones had been a member of the Kansas faculty since 1920, while Miss Bernice Jones was employed in an insurance office many years until ill health forced her to resign a year ago.Four years separated the women’s ages. Miss Ffhel Ann Jones, the elder, was 46 years old at the time of her death. Their devotion one to the other made them Inseparable companions.
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Kansas City Times
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Wed, Dec 09, 1936
Page 6
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