Hillsdale County MI Archives News.....AN INSANE WOMAN, COMPELS HER DAUGHTER TO JOIN HER IN DRINKING POISON November 28, 1889
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The Georgia Enterprise November 28, 1889
     A ghastly affair occurred at Mosherville, Mich., Thursday night. During 
the absence of her husband, Mrs. Nathan Strong filled two tumblers with a 
solution of paris green and handing one to her daughter, Maude, a handsome girl 
of eighteen, and taking the other herself, she drank her own dose and forced 
the girl at the muzzle of a revolver, to swallow the fatal draught. All efforts 
to save the woman and her daughter were unsuccessful, and Mrs. Strong died at 
midnight in horrible agony and Maude an hour later. Maude insisted to the last 
that her mother forced her to drink the poison and said she did not want to 
die. She begged piteously of her friends and doctor to save her life. The 
insanity which led to the awful act has been clearly marked for about two weeks.


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The Georgia Enterprise was published in Newton County Georgia up to 1905.

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