Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1900 — WOMAN'S DESPERATE DEED [ARTICLE]

WOMAN'S DESPERATE DEED

Kills Two of Her Offsprings, Wounds Another anil End* Her Life. j. TjNew York, Oct. (i.—lmpelled by a ■ strange power that overmastered her j maternal love, Mrs. Lillian Smith, the J’wftV of Walter M. Smith, at their home at Imvood-on-the-Hud-son. shot and killed their 0-year-okt sou Andrew. Then, apparently failing in an attempt to poison with carbolic j acid her daughter Ethel, 12, and her ; baby. Mabel, 4 years old, she shot them, inflicting probably fatal injuries, ! and in the belief that the tragedy was : three-fourth done she ended her own | life with a bullet through the heart. Iler husband, who occupies a re* j sponsible position with the wholesale ! firm of Austin. Nichols A Co., was so j crushed by the news that he was not j permitted to look on the faces of the | dead for fear he would kill himself.