Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1908 — CHILDREN SMOTHERED IN TRUNK [ARTICLE]

CHILDREN SMOTHERED IN TRUNK

Pitiful Death of Two Little Ones in Massachusetts. Fall River, Mass., June 12.—After a long search Thursday night the bodies of Joseph and Andre Beaudry, eight and five years old, respectively, were found locked in a trunk in which the children are supposed to have hidden themselves in order to escape going to school. The trunk has a spring lock. The medical examiner decided that their deaths were due to suffocation. The Interior of the trunk and the clothing and bodies of the children gave evidence of the struggles which the little ones had made to escape before death overtook them.