Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1909 — TRIPLE TRAGEDY ON FARM [ARTICLE]

TRIPLE TRAGEDY ON FARM

Drink Causes Helper to Kill Woman, a Man and Himself. Modena, Mo., Jan. 15.—John Brooks, a farm hand, drove his employer off the premises at the point of a revolver and after killing Mrs. John Thompson, an invalid, and Butler Thompson, committed snidds. Brooks was insane from driak.