Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-10-04 | Page 7 | Mental Defective Given Poison to End Tortured Life

MENTAL iEtA DEFECTIVE GIVEN IVE POISON TOE TO END E TORTURED LifE UFE Mother Heartbroken by Cruel Jokes of Playmates Playmates Playmates Play Play- mates o on Backward Boy Chooses Death Bo Both h Found Huddled Together NEW YORK O Oct Ot t. t 4 AP AP-A AP A mother who ridded herI her I y 16 year old old ar-old backward son of hi his troubled d life yesterday y died today from the effects of the potion which she shared with hint him Mrs Helen Iwanska of Brooklyn loved her first born bornson bornson son on Joseph the most of h her hr r three childr children n but b because cause he lIe was mentally defective no one else seemed to care for him nail and that broke her hc hert rt Added to that s sOrrow v he her bet second child Sigmund 14 14 was made nade d deaf af and dumb S seven ven years years ago when wl struck by an automobile For years Mrs Iwanska had shielded Joseph from the pranks of his playmates Day after day his hit cl classmates whom h he tow towered red head and shoulders above wOuld chase chae him home from school to the arms of ot his hie mother While alOne with 11 her r unfortunate son she mixed three tInee poisonous liquids In a II glass laBs and co coaxed him to drink it St She swallowed the tue t r test st herself They TI were found huddled together JOS Joseph lh d dead d and his mother dying