Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1886 — DROWNED HER SON. [ARTICLE]

DROWNED HER SON.

A Vermont. Mother’s Unnatural Crime. [Stanford (Vt.) special.] Mrs. William Sloan, has for several months been extremely jealous of her husband, and the affairs of the family have been the topic of conversation among the villagers. Mr. Sloan returned from work at an early hour last evening. His four-year-old boy, who always met him at the door, failed to do so. On going into the house he inquired for his son, and his wife said she had sent the boy on an errand. His long delay resulted in a general search for the child, whoso lifeless body was fonnd in a ditch. The body was removed to the house and laid at the feet of Mrs. Sloan. She did net show any signs of emotion or surprise, and merely said it served her husband right to inflict such a punishment on him. The cool way in which she took the matter, and the fact that she had refused to join in the search, led the neighbors to believe that she had committed the murder. A constable took her in custody and shortly after being locked up she confessed having drowned the child. Her only reason for doing so was, as she said, to spite her husband. The shock hag made Mr. Sloan insane. The Savannah News says that the real reason why Southern men wear their hair long is to keep the sun from tanning theii necks.