Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1912 — CONVICTS WIFE AS POISONER [ARTICLE]

CONVICTS WIFE AS POISONER

Husband Was Partly Paralysed Aftsr Eating a Pie. lonia, Mich., Jan. 26. —Mrs. Amelia Jones was convicted by a jury of poisoning her former husband, Henry Jones. The poison it was alleged was placed in pie which Jones ate and which partly paralyzed him for life. Mrs. Jones will be sentenced later. Jones is thirty-two years old, and his former wife is fifty-eight. Three Miners Are Killed. Mount Carmel, Pa., Jan. 26. —Three mine workers were killed in a cave in the Alaska shaft of the Philadelphia eading Coal and Iron company near/here while at work. Starves to Death on Diet. Omaha, Neb., Jan. 26. —Mrs. Soutse Zschau, who began dieting six months ago in an effort to recover her health, starved to death.