Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-10-06
A DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
A Young Woman, Demented by the Death
of Her Father, Kills Her Moth
er and Herself.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Oct. 3.-Bertha
Bielstein killed her mother yesterday
and later put four bullets into her
she cannot recover. The only explain
alton the girl has given for her terri
BILE deed were these words:
Was Tired of Life.
81 was tired of life. It held NO pleas
| ure for me. l wanted to die and did
| not want my mother to live and fret
over my death. For that reason I
killed her."
What the Son and Brother Saw.
The crime, which was committed
some time early in the morning, was
not discovered until late in the day,
when son of the murdered woman
came to the house to see his mother.
He went to her room and found her
at the right side of the nose told the
story. The bed was covered with
blood and there was every indication
that death had ensued some hours be-
fore.
In a room adjoining that of the
mother the son found the body of his
sister. She was lying in pool of blood
and in her right hand was clutched a
revolver, the implement of destruc-
ton.
Shot Three Times.
An examination of Mrs. Bielstein
showed that she had been shot three
times with 4s-caliber revolver. One
shot had entered at the right side of
the nose and had taken a downward
course through the neck and had cut
the seventh cervicle vertebrate. This,
the physicians say, must have caused
instant death. Another shot had en-
tered the right breast and the third
had passed through the right groin.
A Question of Only a Short Time.
An examination of the daughters
wounds convinced the physicians that
her death was a question of only a
short time. A bullet from a 4S-caliber
had torn its way through the right
temple and had passed out at the top
Of the head. From both the entrance
and exit of the wound the brains were
oozing. A bullet from the same sized
revolver had been fired into her left
breast near the heart, and she had
also shot herself twice in the stomach
with revolver of % caliber.
Why sne Killed Her Mother.
To one of her brothers during a pc
Rod of consciousness the girl told OF
the shooting of her mother. She said
she went into the room with the re-
yolver in her hand. She had decided
to kill herself and knew that the
shock of her death would break he1
mothers heart, and concluded death
would be preferable to her sufferinga
on earth. Her mother, she said, was
sleeping when she went to the room
She placed the revolver close to her
breast and fired. On the report OF
the pistol the mother sat up in bed
and said to her, "Birdie, what are you
doing" The answer was another
shot, which, she says, was fired at hel
mothers face. This was evidently the
shot which entered Mrs. Bielstein's
face and resulted in her instant |
death. One more wound was inflicted |
afterward.
Heart Broken Over the Death of Hen |
Father.
Frederick Beilstein, the father OF |
the family, was one of the best known |
residents of Allegheny. He died sud |
denly in December last from apoplexy |
and since then Birdie, who was &C |
years old, is said to have lost all he1 |
youthful beauty. From the light |
hearted, happy girl, she became q
quiet, depressed, Respondent woman
Hence the friends of the family think |
she was temporarily insane when she
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