Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1899-05-16 | Page 3 | Brutality of Parents

BRUTALITY OF PARENTS Nearly Burn to Death Their Four Little Lit-tle Children Atlanta Ga May 13 Winnie Roach a mulatto woman and her husband are charged with brutally burning their four little children nearly to death by igniting paper saturated with kero IgiUng sene with which their bodies had been wrapped The man Lawrence Roach ran away during the afternoon when he heard that his treatment of his children had been reported to the police The woman wo-man was in the act of applying fire to one of the children when a crowd broke in The police were summoned as a lynching was feared The woman and the children were taken to the station One of the children had all the flesh burned from her leg in several places and will probably die The other three are all badly burned