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THE STATE.TRIED TO KILL THE FAMILY.An Awful Tragedy Occurs near Lowell, Kent Couniy.IIukcu! We* I brook. n farmer living three wile* north of Lowell, Kent county, *ro»o early on the morning of the Uh ln*L and went into the loom where lna wife uud Min all chUd *lopl ami ttruck them three Ilmen ua iho ho d with u hummer.Then he wont Into the room where hi* two daughter*. dfted til ami 14* slept aud ♦truck them c ch three time*. He thou wool loUi the room of hi* two mod* mid Htruck at the olden!, but ho took the ham mer awty from hi* father and follo*v**d him ua *oou u« he could dowu *tutr*. wlium he found hi* lather In the yard. dead, with hi* throat cut.The you oreid child tiled dor lag the foio-noou, and it l* thought that the other two rauuot recover. Tho tuothor's *kull I* fractured miuI it will be a miracle if *ho •urvlvf* The boy hu* but a bruit© on hi* fore It cud No M?riou« confluence* will follow.What could have cmmed t ill* most horrible hatchery t* a mystery. Speculation, which cover* the wide*! puwibie mco|hj. hu* developed but one theory In regard to it, aud that l* tHe hot that Wcwtbrook. through had buttoenM judgement or poor manaK* iitcnt n few month* ago, had met with financial Io*m** The*©, it l»*uppo*od, preyed upon hi* uniulviutil Ut* reason wa» de thro nod.
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Weekly Expositor
Yale, Michigan, US
Thu, Nov 14, 1889
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