Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — Kills Husband and Self. [ARTICLE]

Kills Husband and Self.

At midnight, Tuesday night, Mrs. H. B. Tunure arose from her bed at Mason City, lowa, and shot her husband twice through the head, and after making sure that her husband was dead she then killed herself. The six children were awakened only in time to extinguish a fire which had caught in the clothing of their mother, but her body had already been badly burned. Not until after the deed was committed did anyone suspect that she had been acting strangely of late. The verdict of the coroner’s jury was that the deed was committed while she was temporarily insane.