Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-12-01 | Page 10 | Hot Iron Tortures Charged to Mor

HOT IRON TORTURES CHARGED TO MOTHER Woman Accused of Burning Daughter 10 INDIANAPOLIS Ind Dec 1 UP Because UP-Because Because her 10 year old year old daughter Bernice took a jar of ot mayonnaise from tram the pantry shelf sheI Mrs Jean Heitz 37 tortured the child with a heated curling iron police charged after the arrest ol of oC the w woman man I Mrs Heitz explained she did not realize the curling iron was so hot that she had intended only to teach Bernice a lesson Bernice who suffered red first degree degree degree de de- de- de gree burns on the right hand arm armand armand armand and leg and second degree burns burnson on the palm of her left hand was taken to a hospital The child told police she ate the I mayonnaise because she was hun hun- gry Other stories of ot cruelty were were brought out b by questioning lJ police police police po po- po- po lice said They quoted Mrs Irs Heitz as os saying she had bad punished Bernice and a son Joseph 12 with a baseball baseball baseball base base- ball bat and had twisted sticks in their hair