Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-04-12 | Page 2 | Father Beats, Stabs, Daughter, 6, after Feeling Insane Asylum

Father Beats Stabs Daughter 6 After Fleeing Insane Asylum OAKLAND Cal Cat April 12 INS year Six Barbara Bearden beaten and stabbed by her maniac father was near death Friday In n Alameda cou county ty hospital The father J John hn Bearden 26 escaped from the Agnew state hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital for the insane Thursday He went to the Muir school In Hayward Hayward Hayward Hay- Hay ward and told Barbaras Barbara's teacher he hemd had md come for his daughter because her mother was ill He walked with the child to the Southern Pacific railroad tracks where he beat her and stabbed her herin herin herin in the head and chest with a hunting huntIng hunting hunt hunt- ing knife Leaving the girl wounded and bleeding beside the tracks Bearden Bearden Bearden Bear Bear- den next appear appeared d at 1 tI the home of his brother NealI Neal I killed Barbara the father said handing his brother the bloody knife I was going o kill myself too but I lost my nerve