The Monroe News-Star - Esther Marx Hangs Herself
Submitted by: Lora Peppers  December 1999

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The Monroe News-Star
Thursday, December 8, 1910
Page 5, Column 1

GIRL COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Miss Esther Marx, a School Teacher, a Nervous Wreck.
New Orleans, Dec. 7.-Miss Esther Marx, member of a prominent family, and a
highly esteemed teacher in the Robert E. Lee school, committed suicide by
hanging herself in an outhouse at Covington yesterday. The body was brought
here this morning and interred. Miss Marx went to Covington to be treated for
nervous prostration, and seemed to be getting better. Yesterday she
received a letter from her sister announcing that her claim for back pay as
teacher had been allowed, and the check was awaiting her. Immediately after
receiving this letter she repaired to an outhouse and hanged herself. When
discovered life was extinct. Her nervousness was attributed to overwork.
She was a native of Thiboudeaux, and leaves numbers of close relatives.