The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-06-09
INSANE PARENTS
TERRIBLE DEED
NEW JERSEY MAN KILLS THREE
OF HIS CHILDREN.
A FOURTH BADLY WOUNDED
Turns Weapon on Himself as Police
Arrive and Takes His Own Life
Two of His Little Ones
Poisoned and Strangled.

ROSelle, n. j., June I.--AlLer Killing
three of his children and wounding
fourth, Joseph NJ. Pouch. at one time OH
undertaken. shot himself through the
head Monday and died few moments
later. Pouch lived In a little cottage
with his four children. Sunday he
poisoned two u Thorn and embalmed
their bodies He took the other two to
an upper room with him Meanwhile. he
had mailed a warning to County Physi-
elan Westcott. who. upon receiving tho
letter, notified the police. When the Of
ficials knocked at the door OF the Pouch
cottage. Pouch shot and killed his little
daughter and wounded his sole remain
son. He then shot himself and died al
the police forced an entrance, The boy
will recover. Pouch was believed TO have
bee. insane.
Had Been Disinherited.
Pouch, who was about 81 years old was
the son of o wealthy undertaken in
Brooklyn. When the elder Bouch died
some years ago he is said TO have left his
entire estate to brother Of the central
figure In Mondays tragedy This fact Is
believed to have made Pouch morosc.
He had been twice married The first
wife obtained a divorce and has since re-
married. His second wife died two
months ago Her death caused Pouch
to become more respondent,
Notified County Physician.
The letter to County Physician West
colt was mailed Monday morning. tin
formed the doctor that he should proceed
TO Pouch's house as there was some
thing doing in his line" DR. Westcott
notified Marshall Hennessey who. with
Policeman Kinney, went To the Pouch
home When they knocked at the front
door there was a few seconds OF silence
and then three shots were heard in the
front room upstairs. The two officers
broke down the front door and went up
stairs, where they came upon the BODY
of Pouch He was still breathing, but
died in few seconds.
The room was lighted and in the far
corner the police found Albert Pouch, ~
years Of age, with a bullet IN his right
side He was olive, but unconscious,
Albert was hurried to hospital. where
the bullet was extracted. His chances
of recovery are excellent. Beside him
10y the dcad body of his sister Minnie
| Ave years old. She had been shot in The
| breast.
Poisoned and Strangled
| The police In exploring the house forced
| an entrance into rear room on The
| first floor. There they found laid out IA
| IL by an undertaken the white claC
! corpses of two other little girls The,
were Lillian, aged years. and Grace
aged Is months. Their mouths wer'
| burned with carbOiic acid and on theil
throats were the marks of fingers, show
| Ing that besides having the poison
| poured into their mouths by their ia
Their they had been chokcd. A physician
| said they had been dead at least "a hours
Story of the Son.
| Albert said after recovering conscious
ness at the hospital that Sunday morn
| ing his father took his two sisters, Lii
| Ian and Grace. into the room where
| their bodies were found and sent Minnie
| and himself to the upper part OF tn
| house. Albert never saw Lillian ant
Grace again and does not yet know thei
fate. He says his father told him h
had locked them in the back room. Al
bert and Minnie remained locked In thu
| a t,,1
and all Of Monday Most OF the tim
their father was with them. Albert say
that he and his sister were seated In
corner Monday evening, He thinks hi
sister was asleep leaning against hin
when there came rappinR on the from
door His father then rose from his chat
and shot them both