Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1909 — DEATHBED ACCUSATIONS [ARTICLE]

DEATHBED ACCUSATIONS

Girl Accuses Woman of Forcing Her to Take Poison, Attica, Ind.. Aug. 27.—The death of Miss May Besto, a girl not yet fourteen years old, from paris green poisoning, has thrown the village of Winthrop Into a fermbnt. Tt was supposed the girl had committed suicide, but shortly before her death she made a statement to her father in which she declared that Mrs. John Yocum, wife of a railway section foreman at W'inthrop, had forced her to take the drug. She also accused the husband of wrongdoing. Yocum has left and his wife is under surveillance while the Warren county coroner is making an investigation. The girl’s mother is dead and she kept house for her father.