People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1893 — AN INSANE MOTHER’S DEED. [ARTICLE]

AN INSANE MOTHER’S DEED.

She Cuts Her Daughter’s and Her Own Throats—Both Are Dead. Vaxdalia, 111., May 3. Tuesday morning’, fourteen miles west of here, near Mulberry Grove, Mrs. Elizabeth Harper, wife of Jefferson Harper, a wealthy farmer, cut the throat of her daughter, Alice, aged 16, with a razor and then cut her own throat with the same weapon. Mrs. Harper was insane. The girl and her mother were alone at the house at the time. The mother died instantly. The girl lived several hours and managed to tell the manner of their death.