Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1891 — AN INSANE MOTHER’S DEED. [ARTICLE]

AN INSANE MOTHER’S DEED.

With a Shot (tun She Kills Her Three Children and Herself. Mrs, Thomas Lichridc, wife of a prosperous farmer living two miles from Springfield, Tenn.. killed herself and three children on the 12th. She had been in poor health for some time, and her mindls supposed to have become affected. After yvriting a long letter to her husband, who yvas attending church, tho woman secured a double-barreled shotgun, %nd, placing it at the breast of each of hot three children ip turn, tore their little bodies terribly xvith the heavy charges. Then turning the weapon upon herself she ended her ayvful work. The children yvere aged four years, two years, aud four months. The mother had been despondent for many years, and had attempted hoi life before she was married. While Mrs. Jessie P. Elliott and daughter. of Conners ville, were out driving they raised an umbrella, which frightened tin horse.- Both were thrown riage and the mother seriously injured The horse ran half & mile and dropped dead. «