People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1894 — MOTHER AND CHILD DEAD. [ARTICLE]

MOTHER AND CHILD DEAD.

Mrs- Bear Kills Her Infant and I.oses Her Own Life. St. Cloud, Minn., Aug. 14.—At Watab, Benton county, Mrs. Peter Bear, wife of a half-breed, murdered her infant while the family was absent from home. Maggie, one of the childred, who returned home shortly after the death of the baby, says her mother confessed the crime to her, stating that she seized the child, which was crying on the bed, by the feet and dashed out its brains on the floor. When Peter Bear returned home and found, he says, his wife dead with her neck broken. The undertaker says he saw nothing the matter with the body, but the half-breeds affirm that the neck was broken and further hint as Bear as the murderer.