Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1914 — HANOVER MOB KILLS BABY [ARTICLE]

HANOVER MOB KILLS BABY

French Woman Also Tells How Hueband Was Put to Death. Ixmdon. Aug. 18.—A Reuter dispatch from Rennes. France, says: "Mme. Guillon, a wealthy resident of Combourg, a town a short dls-i tance southeast of St. Malo, has arrived here and told how her husband! and baby were killed by a mOb In Hanover. Germany. The grief-strick-l en woman “said: “ We were expelled on August 1* from Kolberg, a town of Prussia In;' Pomerania, and tried to reach France Switzerland. But we were turned back before we reached the German frontier and compelled to retrace our steps and go by way of Holland. “ ‘On arriving in Hanover my husband and myself were arrested as spies and stoned by a mob, despite the protective efforts of the police. My husband unfortunately lost his selfsontrol and cried, “Long live FrancO* and “Long live England,” whereupOh he was shot. " ‘Two friends who tried to IntejS vene also were killed. Our baby? which wore a cap bearing the won! “France” was torn away from dashed to the ground and killed. “ ‘My brother-in-law was thrown Intel prison at Bentheim.’ ”