Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1910 — CHOPS WIFE’S HEAD WITH AX [ARTICLE]

CHOPS WIFE’S HEAD WITH AX

Husband Runs Two Miles to Give Himvt self Up to Police.. >..'i St. Joseph, Mo, May 13.—-After almost killing his wife with an ax, George Buford, a negro, ran two miles in the night to give himself up to the police. He tried to get into the police station, but could not open a door, so continued through the business part of the city to the county jail. With perspiration dripping and himself hardly able to gasp for breath, he told the officers he had chopped off his wife’s head. The jailers thought Buford had gone insane and paid little attentior: to him at first. She was found dying-