Clay County AlArchives News.....Price Murder-Suicide  February 10, 1938
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Ashland Progress February 10, 1938
Goodwater, Feb. 7. Throwing two of her five children into 15 feet of water at 
the bottom of a well at her home eight miles west of here, Mrs. C. S.
Price, widow, leaped after them to death Friday night, according to Coroner 
Stokeley Corley. 
A coroner's jury Saturday morning returned a verdict of murder and suicide. 
The children who went to death with their mother were Betty Ruth, 4, and 
Douglas, 6. 
All three bodies were recovered from the well Saturday morning. 
Before throwing the children into the well, Coroner Corley said, Mrs.
Price sent two older children, Howard, 14, and Mildred, 12, for her brother, 
Albert Conger, who lives a half mile from her home, instructing them to tell her 
brother "To come at once." 
Another child, John Conger Price, 18 months old, was left alone in the bedroom 
of her home. 
Conger, on arriving and finding the baby alone in the house, started searching 
for his sister and her two missing children. 
The clue that led to discovery of the tragedy was the fact that the cover to the 
well was missing. 
Howard and Mildred Price told investigators that as they left the house about 
7:30 p.m. to go to their uncle's their mother fell in the floor weeping.
A neighbor, Ellis Blackman, passed the house about 8 p.m. and heard a child 
scream. He went on without investigating. The night before the tragedy Mrs. 
Price had stayed at the home of her sister, Mrs. J. D. Ward, who said Mrs. Price 
seemed to be in a disturbed condition.
Friday afternoon Mrs. Price had visited a neighbor, Lee Jones, who was seriously 
ill. coroner Corley said the woman read the Bible and "preached" to the sick 
man. 
The bodies of the three victims were brought back to Liberty Hill Methodist 
church, three miles south of Ashland, for burial last Saturday afternoon. The 
two children, Douglas, age 6, and Bettie Ruth, age 4, were buried in the same 
casket. Mrs. Price was buried beside her husband who died about a year ago.

Additional Comments:
Ashland Progress Jan 7, 1937:
Charlie Price, farmer residing in the Toland Mill community, died early this 
morning, following an attack of pneumonia. Mr. Price was 38 years of age, and a 
veteran of the World War. He is survived by his widow and five children. Funeral 
services will be held at Liberty Hill tomorrow morning, after which interment 
will be made in the old Mt Zion cemetery, Nolan Bros, in charge.


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