People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — BEAT HIS BOY TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

BEAT HIS BOY TO DEATH.

Horrified at the Crime, the Father and Mother Take Poison. Bowling Green, Ky., April 12. —A horrible murder and a double attempt at suicide was made in this city Monday night. George Bradley, a negro, went home about 10 o’clock and flew into a rage about something his 7-year-old boy had done. Picking up a piece of plank the man beat the child to death. Horrified at what he had done, Bradley went down town and purchased some rat poison and went back home. He and his wife both took a dose of it. The poison did not operate fast enough for Bradley and he procured a razor, and, getting on the bed, cut his throat, making a gash 4 inches long and' nearly severing the jugular. Neighbors Tuesday morning found the lifeless body of the boy on the floor, and in a bed together were Bradley and his wife, the former gasping for breath and his wife in fearful agony from the poison. Bradley will die, but it is thought his wife may recover. Bradley and his wife have been industrious people and stood well with everybody.