Allen-Marion County IN Archives News.....INSANE WOMAN'S DEED August 11, 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jan Cortez http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00020.html#0004939 June 11, 2010, 4:04 pm The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fri., 11 Aug 1899 August 11, 1899 INSANE WOMAN'S DEED POISONED HER FAMILY AND THEN KILLED HERSELF Indianapolis, Ind. - August 10 - This evening Mrs. Clara Baldwin, of Irvington, wife of Enos Baldwin, special agent of an insurance company, with strychnine introduced into the food eaten at dinner, poisoned her husband, her son James, and her daughter Mary. Mrs. Baldwin then went to an upper room, shot herself with a revolver, dying instantly. At a late hour physicians were working to save father, son and daughter, who had not recovered consciousness. It is thought Mrs. Baldwin was insane. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/allen/newspapers/insanewo57gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb