Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1891 — AN INSANE MOTHER’S CRIME. [ARTICLE]

AN INSANE MOTHER’S CRIME.

She Hangs Herself amlFour Children. Mrs. Christian Pederson, a Danish woman, and Tour children, aged from three to ten, were found hanging in the cellar at their- house, three miles northwest of Harlan, lowa, on the 24th. It is thought they had been hanging since Wednesday nighty the 20th inst. The husband was sent to the insane asylum about a week ago, and this series of murders and suicides show thqt his wife should have accompanied him, as she must have been violently insane,