The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-15
insane Parent SLASHES THR0ATS
CHILDREN, ENDS own life BY HANGING
Awful Tragedy Enacted at the Home Of James Yore Near the
Bradley Crossing, But Short Distance From This
City; Crime Committed This Morning.

Four innocent little with ugly, gaping their
throat pools blood in the living of their
little home house of horrors north of the city, all victims of
their murderousy fndishly father, James E. Yore
Out the woohed twenty PAGES from the house. stretched cold
DEATH his cenced fits sealed with the life blood of his four young
est children is the body of the crazed parent a suicide.
the road, the home of neighbour Ida Yoke shock
violently hyster because terrible discovery she
when she from her bed this morning
Altogether the awful tragedies of recent years. end
degree that lent the
babarous perpetrated boory Indians in early
days
morning beggar description
voting they Imagine beautiful little children lying huddled
together their turned upward and ugly gaping wound the
further description of the house of tragedy
necessary
HAS BEEN MOROSE SINCE WIFES DEATH.
death his wife about year ago, James E.
Yorke Respondent less Of the time His
daughter Ida young lady perhaps twenty years. home
to keep house younger sisters and brother and
worked faithfully fill the place made vacant by the
mother Nevertheless, Yoke worried his clrcum-
his affairs, which from
OF late he talked he believed in extremely
cac doctrines and went to his neghbor to induce them to "d
vide up with hmto give him grain some other
part their worldly possessions He worked aboe the
Kondk quarry until the quarry shut down week OF ten days ago.
which time he has been of work Rumor the neghbo
hood the effect yesterday 4ore last dollar
his ngbor who him yesterday said he seemed unusually cheer
f this believed that he had then planned the awful series
Of crimes he pepetrated this morning
Early this morning Yorke got up and went down stairs and
built fire in the kitchen stove About o'clock Ida 1oe
TALLY dressed the other children and them time down
stairs to complete their dressing before the fire.
CHILDREN TRIPPED DOWN STAIRS TO THEIR DEATH.
AS rpped the
living they sliced by thier father who with
single slash with other keen edged instrument cut
their Threats from and threw them to the floor to die
The last of the helpless children breathing her last the left
the of his terrible deeds mming the blood mred door be-
hind him the little wOodshed to his miserable
Procuring piece telephone upon box fitted
the loop fastened the other end afer and
kicked the box from under him. The wire pulled from the
rater and he fell the ground the had been drawn tight
death resulted from broken neck strangulaton all APP
pearances.
HORRIBLE DISCOVERY BY DAUGHTER.
While engaged the awful work of numbering
his little his housekper and older daughter upstairs wait
ing for the living before she down. She heard
cung but thought the children play Finally when
she heard the door slam she hurried down witness spectacle that
would drive most women insane from shock Walking
through pools blood her stocking feet before she could command
her limbs the frantic girl raced out of the house, leaving bloody foot
prints her the neighbo the home of Alfred Olson
NEIGHBORS HURRY TO THE SCENE
Mr. Olson her approach screaming, and finally managed
sufficient coherent talk from her to learn that awful tragedy
had occurred at her home His faterinaw Andrew Swanson
ger with Morgan Brooks and Johnson neighbours
rd to the Yoke place and upon opening the door getting the
first glimpse of the frighu sight of the four little chden-he
youngest only six and the eldest fourteen years od-Hing
pools of Blood they turned back notified Sheriff
phone then returned to the place.
few red led them to the woodshed where
they found the dead body of the murderer suicide
Before ten o'clock, Deputies Phillips Kugherz Officer Ed
wards and reporters for The local daily paper cene
After hast investigation Coroner Kennedy was notified and
he arrived, preceded by Sheriff Donahue
NO WORD LEFT BY MURDERER AND SUICIDE
Free Press representative Morgan Brooks who was
M IN charge OF the place during the brief absence of the officers