IDENTITY OF
   RIVER VICTIM
      ESTABLISHED
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    Body Exhumed at Request
  of N. W. Know, Boise, and is
       Claimed as That of His
                  Father
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    After having been buried in the Canyon Hill cemetery without identification the body of the man found in the Snake river Tuesday was exhumed Wednesday at the request of U. W. Knox, of Boise, and positively identified as that of his father, Leighton B. Knox, 63, who left his home the afternoon of August 30 with the statement that he intended going to Mountain home to seek employment.
     Since soon after his disappearance search had been under way for the missing man.  Investigation revealed that the man from whom Mr. Knox had hoped to obtain employment at mountain Home had not been in business there for several years.  The news story of the finding of the body of an unidentified man Tuesday brought the son to Caldwell.
     Because the body was found in a small arm of the Snake river which is in Idaho, about two miles south of Nyssa, Canyon county authorities were notified and Coroner Case and Deputy Sheriff Runciman took charge of the case.  The remains were brought to Caldwell.  In the opinion of Coroner Case all the circumstances pointed to suicide and did not warrant an inquest.
     The body had been in the water about 10 days.  It was weighted down with steel and rocks that had been wired to a belt fastened about the neck.  Although the weights intended to hold it down totaled about 200 pounds the body had raised to near the surface of the river when discovered.
     It is believed that instead of going to Mountain Home, as he had announced, he went to Nyssa railroad bridge and, after attaching the weights to his belt, fastened the belt tightly about the neck and jumped from the bridge.
     Funeral services were conducted at the Case Funeral home today, Thursday, at 11 o'clock, the Rev. Edwin Percy Lawrence officiating.  The body was laid at rest in Canyon Hill cemetery.