Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1894 — A TRIPLE TRAGEDY. [ARTICLE]

A TRIPLE TRAGEDY.

A Jeffersonville special, June 14, says: The body of an unknown man, with thf remains of a woman and child, all ol them apparently dead for two days, were found this mornimg on tho Dow farm, near Borden. They had been shot. A pistol was found beside them, indicating that the man had first k lied the woman and child and then committed suicide, AH tho parties were well dressed. Further details of the triple tragedy near Borden show It to be a ghastly affair. The murderer and suicide was Georg( IJrock, forty-five years old; his victims, his wife and scven-vear-old-son. Thre* children absented themselves, otherwise they would have shared a similar fate Brock first constructed a rude pen, an) after decoying his wife and son thereto he killed them both, using a shot-gun. Their bodies were dragged Into tho pen and covered with a sack, after which be reloaded his gun, laid down beside hie victims an 1, using a wagon-spoke with which to touch the trigger, sent bls owr. soul Into eternity. Brock was Ont ol work and despondent, and ho feared that himself and family would starve. The bodies lav for two days before dlscoverv. tho living children failing to look intc the pen for thorn. _ji - The mercenary maiden doesn't want the earth, but she would like to get the heir.