Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1909 — KILLS BOY AND HERSELF [ARTICLE]

KILLS BOY AND HERSELF

Chicago Woman’s Desperate Crime While Visting in Indiana. Rushville. Ind., March 12.— Mrs. Lew Crist, of Chicago, who was visiting the family of B. W. Riley here, shot and killed her fourteen-year-old boy and then killed herself. No motive for the murder and suicide has been found. That Mrs. Crist premeditated the crime is not believed here. The boy had been killed byfone shot and evidently had been slain while asleep. Ballinger Names Indiana Men. Washington, March 12. —Secretary of the Interior Ballinger , has made John W. Holcombe and James I. Parker. both of Indiana, his assistant and assistant attorney respectively. The Democrat office for horse hills.