Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1908 — ADMITS MATRICIDE, SAY POLICE. [ARTICLE]

ADMITS MATRICIDE, SAY POLICE.

Woman la Fonml Brutally Murdered * and Sou la Arrested Mrs. John F. Hazel, wife of the master mechanic on the Shore Line Railway, was found dead in Toledo by her husband when he returned from work, and, according to the police, Harvey Hazel, the 19-year-old son of the couple, has confessed the murder. It is said that the mother refused to give the youth money. The woman's head had been beaten to a pulp with a hammer and the house had been ransacked, but so far as has been ascertained nothing of value was taken.