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Domestic News
November 26, 1888
Fort Worth Daily Gazette
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
What is this article about?
In Ozark, Missouri, a mother killed her two young daughters with a hatchet and then slit her own throat with a razor, likely due to temporary insanity. The father discovered the bodies upon returning home.
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HATCHET AND RAZOR
A Mother Kills Her Two Daughters and Cuts Her Own Throat.
ST. Louis, Mo., Nov. 25.-Advices from Ozark, Mo., state that news has reached there of a horrible tragedy which occurred yesterday evening on Bull Creek, eighteen miles south of Ozark. William Pruitt, an old citizen of Taney county, had left home early in the morning to assist a neighbor in some work and upon his return home found his two daughters aged eleven and twelve respectively laying on the floor shockingly mutilated on the head and face. A bloody hatchet lying on the floor near the prostrate bodies of the little girls showed that it had been the instrument used in the savage work. The mother of the girls could not be seen about the house and after a long search she was found in the woods with her throat cut from ear to ear, the lifeless hand still grasping the razor that did the fatal work. No cause for the unnatural actions of the mother except temporary insanity can be assigned.
A Mother Kills Her Two Daughters and Cuts Her Own Throat.
ST. Louis, Mo., Nov. 25.-Advices from Ozark, Mo., state that news has reached there of a horrible tragedy which occurred yesterday evening on Bull Creek, eighteen miles south of Ozark. William Pruitt, an old citizen of Taney county, had left home early in the morning to assist a neighbor in some work and upon his return home found his two daughters aged eleven and twelve respectively laying on the floor shockingly mutilated on the head and face. A bloody hatchet lying on the floor near the prostrate bodies of the little girls showed that it had been the instrument used in the savage work. The mother of the girls could not be seen about the house and after a long search she was found in the woods with her throat cut from ear to ear, the lifeless hand still grasping the razor that did the fatal work. No cause for the unnatural actions of the mother except temporary insanity can be assigned.
What sub-type of article is it?
Crime
Death Or Funeral
What keywords are associated?
Hatchet Murder
Family Tragedy
Mother Suicide
Ozark Missouri
Pruitt Family
What entities or persons were involved?
William Pruitt
Where did it happen?
Bull Creek, Eighteen Miles South Of Ozark, Mo.
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Bull Creek, Eighteen Miles South Of Ozark, Mo.
Event Date
Yesterday Evening
Key Persons
William Pruitt
Outcome
two daughters aged eleven and twelve killed by hatchet wounds to head and face; mother found with throat cut from ear to ear, dead.
Event Details
William Pruitt returned home to find his two daughters dead from hatchet wounds. The mother was found in the woods with her throat cut by razor. Attributed to temporary insanity.