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A Fiendish Mother

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
March
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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An oíd negro woinan by tbe name of Brown, living about nine miles south of ' Oovington, Ky., had a daughter about 12 or 13 years of age, wlio liad for a ïong time 'been bed-ridden -with a ■ iess attack of paralyais. Her mother, BB nearnAtfl flend, growing wearyof the constanf care and tronble wmoh fc&e affiicted daughter required at her hands, , determined to put her out of the way, , and selected the most cruel and torturing method that debased ingennity could suggest - burnmg - expccting to conceal her crime under the guise of an accident, i Having perfeeted her diabolical plans, ahout two weeks p.go she set about ■ ting ihem in execution. Piacing the ■ child on a chair by the fireplace, she : gan saturating the head and clothing of Qxe almost helpless child from a bottle I of turpentine that she had procured for that purpose. The child struggled with what power of motion it could command, knocked the bottlo from the lumd of its mother and broke it, saturating tlie ; mother's clotliing with the inflammable fluid. In the struggle the mothfi-'a clothing took lire iïoin the iireplace, and j she abandoned her terrible crime to save I her own life. She rau and tlnew herself into a branch near by, and ötüjguished the ñames, but not until she was ïataliy burned. At the time it was snppoeed to be an accident, but the monster-woman I stibsequently, when in the agonies of I death from her burning, revealed the facts as abovc detailed.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus