Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1913 — MOTHER AND SON DROWN; ONE SAVED [ARTICLE]

MOTHER AND SON DROWN; ONE SAVED

Despondent Mother Seeks to Kill Sell and Two Sons But Youngest Escapes at Logansport. Mrs. Nellie Turnpaugh, of Bluffton, evidently despondent to the point of insanity, tried to drown her two sons, Donald, aged 9, and Delbert, aged 6, at Logansport, Monday. She took them to the interurban bridge, over Deer creek and pushed the children off, the bridge and then jumped into the water herself. The 6-year-old son managed to pull himself from the water but the older one and the mother were drowned. No one witnessed the tragedy, but she little boy who es-caped-stated that his mother said ‘‘No one loves us.” The children were both by a former marriage. Mrs. Turnpaugh came to Logansport to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Sprinkle, of near Logansport. • ■ Her husband is believed to be a distant relative of Mrs. N. C. Shafer, of Rensselaer, whose maiden name was Turnpaugh. . .