Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1909 — THREW BABES IN WELL [ARTICLE]

THREW BABES IN WELL

Mother Bets Fire to House and Barn and Cuts Her Throat. Baraum, M inn., Aug. 31. —Mrs. Fred Young, aged twenty-two, wife of a farmer residing about five miles southeast of here, threw her three children, aged one, three and five years, Into a deep well, set Are to the barn, destroying It, and also set fire to the house. Failing in her efforts to burn the building, she took a dose of parts green and then gashed her throat several times with a knife, making ugly wounds, but failing to sever the jugular vein. She was Insane.