Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1901 — Cats Off Daughter's Fingers. [ARTICLE]

Cats Off Daughter's Fingers.

Andrew Stratton, a carpenter, was arrested at Wheeling, W. Va., for cutting off his four-year-old daughter’s fingers with a hatchet. The Humane Society, which caused Stratton’s arrest, alleges that the crime was committed in the heat of passion, because the child had offended in some trivial way, but Stratton says it was an accident. Stratton’s neighbors were preparing to deal with him summarily when the police arrested hirh.