Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1913 — BABY HANGS SELF IN CRIB [ARTICLE]

BABY HANGS SELF IN CRIB

Peculiar and Distressing Mishap to Little One Asleep In Its Little Bed. Phoenixville, Pa. —Strangled tp death in her crib, where she bad been placed to sleep but a few minutes before, the ten-mouths-old daughter of John Hallman of this place was found by her father. The child had literally hanged herself. The small body, with the feet a few inches above the floor, was found hanging by the neck between the bars of the crib, In some unaccountable yray the child had forced her small body through its bed, a wedge of .bed-cover-ing preventing the bead from following.