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| CHILD MURDER AND SUICIDE
St. Louis, August 3, 1871 The dead bodies of Mrs. Loring and child (two years old) were found just outside of La Cygne, Kansas, on the 29th of July. It appears that the child had been very sick, and the mother had become deranged from anxiety in watching it. On the morning of the 29th she took the child and left the house, and some hours after their bodies were found in the woods skirting the town. She had chocked the child by cramming rags down its throat and then killed herself by tying a rag around her throat so tightly as to strangle her. (New York Herald ~ August 4, 1871) Submitted by Lori DeWinkler |