People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — TO ESCAPE POVERTY. [ARTICLE]

TO ESCAPE POVERTY.

MOTHER MURDERS HER SEVggM CHILDREN. Deapondeney Arialng from Dlr* Want Cauaea a Terrible Tragedy at Marysville, Kan. —Young Man Shoot* Hi* Mother and Hlmaelf. St. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 15.—A terrible [ tragedy is reported as having occurred 'it Marysville, Kan. On a term six miles 5 south of Marysville lived Joseph Hildebranjt, his wife, and family of eight ' children, the latter ranging from 2 to ;L4 years of age. Hildebrandt is at Kan■sas City, being treated in a hospital, j Yesterday forenoon his wife, becoming ' despondent, administered poison to the children, and seven have died. The other is not expected to live. Then she completed the work of destruction by hanging herself to a rafter. The cause of the tragedy was poverty. Mrs. Hille brand t had become despondent on account of the ailment of her husband, and it is supposed her mind became affected. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 15. —Joseph Hildebrandt, husband and father of the victims of the tragedy at Marysville, Kan., has mysteriously disappeared from the All Saints’ hospital in this city, and no trace of him can be found. Hildebrandt was treated for a cancer of the lower jaw. Monday the surgeons attending him decided that a heroic operation would be necessary to save his life. Monday afternoon Hildebrandt left the hospital, stating that he was going out to get a check cashed. Monday night he sent a boy to the hospital to get his clothing. His effects were delivered to the boy, and since that time nothing has been heard of Hildebrandt. All of the city hospitals have been visited in an attempt to locate him. Another Tragedy Dun to Poverty. Ogdensburg, N. Y„ Jan. 15.—William ©swell shot and killed his mother and then ended his own life yesterday. He had been out of work for some time past, and this Is supposed to have prompted him to commit the double crime.