People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — DEED OF A FIEND. [ARTICLE]

DEED OF A FIEND.

Fearful Act of Cruelty to a Child Reported from Topeka, Kan. Topeka, Kas., Jan. 15. —A horrible thing became known to the police when the death of the 14-month-old son of Charles Dean was reported. Mrs. Dean left her two Ismail children alone in a room while she ran over to a neighbor’s. Upon her return she found that some one had removed the cloth-, ing from the babe, seated it upon the top of a hot stove and fled. The flesh of the child was cooked to the bone. A young man who had quarreled with Mr. Dean is suspected, but he has fled the city. The child suffered terribly until death came to relieve it.