Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — MURDERED HIS CHILDREN. [ARTICLE]

MURDERED HIS CHILDREN.

I’, jiiisylvalii i Alan Then fut His Own Throat aiul Will i’rolmbiy Die. i’lioenixv die, Pa., Nov. 16. —Thomas Elwin on Friday cut the throats of his two children, aged four and six years, .with a razor, and then attempted to commit slide hit* in the same manner. The children died id most instantly, and there is hut little linpe of the fat her’a recovery. For sometime Kivvin has not lived happily with his fa ft lily and Ibis, together with drinking, is \\ hat caused the tragedy.