Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1909 — KILLED CHILDREN WITH AXE [ARTICLE]

KILLED CHILDREN WITH AXE

Deed of Insane Mother Recently Released From an Insane Asylum. East Grand Forks, Minn., Aug. 20. — Mrs. Anton Strause, mother of six children residing at Tabor, killed her one-year-old daughter and three-year-lid son by chopping off their heads with an axe. She then ran to the nearest neighbor to borrow a gun to shoot her other four children who were picking beans with their father in a field. An Insane motive prompted the deed as the woman had keen out of the state asylum only three months.