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TRIED TO KILL THE FAMILY.An Awful Triuretl ' Otvnra near Lowell. Kent County.lUgpai Weal brook. n farmer living three mile* north of Loffsil, Kent county, nroaoearly on the morning of llit* -4th InsL and went into the loom where Im wife uud small child alcpt and struck them three times an the hoi.d with u hammer.Thon lie wont into tho room where hU i wo daughter*, aired IU and li slept and struck them e oil three times. lie thou went Into the room of lit* two sous and Nfruck ut the oldest, but ho took tho ham mer away from Ills father and followed him us aoou u» he could down stairs. whore h* found hi* father In the yard. dead, with hla throat cut.The youngest child died daring tho foio-noou, uud It la thought that the other two cannot recover. Tho mother's akull la fractured and U will bo a in I rue ie if *ho survive* The boy linn but u bruise on Ids forehand No serious Consequence* will follow.Wlial could hnvo on used ihia most horrible hatchery i» a mystery. Speculation, Which covei*s the widest possible kcojhj. bun developed but ono theory In regard to lL uud that Is the hd that Westbrook, through bud business judgement or poor maiuK mcnt a few uionthn ago, had met with financial losses These, il lasupposed, preyed upon his mind uulil Ida reason was dethroned
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Weekly Expositor
Yale, Michigan, US
Thu, Nov 14, 1889
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