Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1904 — Three Men Asphyxiated by One. [ARTICLE]

Three Men Asphyxiated by One.

Philadelphia, April 7.—Edward and Jacob Hammond, brothers, and Oscar Sigertsen were asphyxiated by illuminating gas as they slept in tbe Hammond home. Sigertsen boarded with tbe Hammonds and occupied a room adjoining that in which the brothers slept. Returning from tbe theater Sigertsen turned on the gas which was connected with a gas stove and retired leaving tbe gas escaping from the atove.