Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1908 — His Family Is Safer Now. [ARTICLE]

His Family Is Safer Now.

Lebanon, Ind.. May 21.—After two unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife’s eight-months-old child. William Hogan, an employe of the Big Four railroad at tills place, committed suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. About midnight Mrs. Hogan awoke to find her husband bending over her sleeping child, holding his hands over the babe’s nose and mouth. He admitted that he was trying to kill the child, something hehad tried two weeks ago. He left the house and at once drank poison.