Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1908 — POISONS HER BABE AND THEN HERSELF [ARTICLE]

POISONS HER BABE AND THEN HERSELF

Wife of Chicago Artist Attempts Double Crime. Chicago, Dec. 25. —After attempting to kill her eleven-months-old boy with poison, Mrs. Joseph Kratzner, wife of an artist living in the fashionable Florence apartment building, 16 Belle vue place, swallowed corrosive sublimate in her home. Both mother and child are at the point of death. Melancholia Is the only cause that the woman’s husband and her mother, who is visiting her, can assign for tbe attempted murder and suicide.