People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — KILLS HIS MOTHER. [ARTICLE]

KILLS HIS MOTHER.

Indiana Man Commits a Terrible Crime While Drunk. Shelbyville, Ind., Aug. 29.—John Wrennflek, aged 26, shot and instaptfy killed his mother late yesterday ev§ning. He had been drinking, and quarreled with Miss Eva Nelson, who tfas at the Wrennflck’s house. He threatened her, and getting hold of an qJ<J musket ran her out of the house aod off the premises. When she returned Mrs. William Wrennflek was with her, and just as the door opened young Wrennflek fired. The entire load of shot and slugs was emptied into hgr breast, and she fell at his feet a corpse. Isle is now raving, and declares he will commit suicide. He also says that ho did not know the gun was loaded.