Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1909 — BILL CAUSES TRAGEDY [ARTICLE]

BILL CAUSES TRAGEDY

Shoots Mother Dead, Wounds Children and Kills Himself. Farmingdale, L. 1., Feb. 5. —Frederick Buckholt, forty years old, shot and killed Mrs. Elizabeth Rust, wounded her two children as they stood clinging to her skirts, and then hanged himself in the attic of his home. He quarreled with the woman over a board bill.