Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1909 — BABY STARVED AFTER MOTHER SUICIDED. [ARTICLE]

BABY STARVED AFTER MOTHER SUICIDED.

Bloomington Woman Hangs Herself At Lonely Spot and Leaves Baby To Starve At Her Fee^ The discovery by a farmer near Bloomington, Ind., of the body of a woman hanging to the limb of a tree and her baby starved to death at her feet brings to light one of the most pitiful tales of love and disappointment ever known.

The woman was Mrs. Catherine Polley, 28 years of age. Her husband was in Pendleton, Oreg., where she owned property, and he had written asking her to transfer 60 city lots, but relatives had advised her not to do it, and the life her husband was leading seemed just reason for her refusal. On Friday, Sept. 10th, she disappeared and a search failed to give any clue to her whereabouts, and it was thought she had taken her baby and gone to join her husband. Friday, however, a farmer found the body suspended from a limb in the woods and the little child was found dead on the ground near by, where it had succumbed to starvation and exposure.