Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1914 — KILLS 2; SEEKS OWN DEATH [ARTICLE]

KILLS 2; SEEKS OWN DEATH

Wife of Contractor Fearful of Disease Tries to Relieve Husband of Burdens. >

Greenwich. Conn., March 20.—Believing that she had tuberculosis and would be a burden to her husband, Mrs. William Anthony, wife of a contractor, drowned her small son and daughter in a bathtub and then swallowed poison. She may recover.