Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1909 — TRAGEDY EPIDEMIC IN CHICAGO; SEVEN SLAIN [ARTICLE]

TRAGEDY EPIDEMIC IN CHICAGO; SEVEN SLAIN

Mother Who Killed Children and Self Was Insane. Chidago, Aug. 17. —In the case of Mrs. Marie Handzell, who killed herself and three of her seven children with gas, a coroner's jury decided that the woman was demented on account of illness. The evidence showed that her husband awakened in time to save the other children and himself. Gustave Hering. Insane from despondency and hot weather, killed his wife as she slept, tried to shoot his young son for attempting to save the woman and then committed suicide. Bruno Fluro is a prisoner and it Is expected he will oe tried for murder. He shot and mortally wounded Airs. Effielia Graziano. She spurned his attentions. Fluro was saved from the wrath of angry Italians by Detective John Notten. John Halegda was shot and killed by Joseph JablensKi. a saloon keeper. Jablenski declares that the slain man attacked him because ordered to leave the barroom and that he shot in self defense.