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Show RENDERED INSANE BY GRIEF. Crazed Woman Slashes Herself With Butcher Knife Following Death of Daughters. Salt Lake City. Rendered insane by the death of her two children, Mrs. Gertrude Bircumshaw Winter slashed herself with a butcher knife Tuesday and inflicted wounds that will prov fatal. Mrs. Winter was laboring under un-der the delusion that her 12-year-old daughter, .who died last Monday of scarlet fever, still lived. In a frenzy she declared that neither she nor her daughter could die. "To demonstrate this I will slash myself in the intestines intes-tines with a knife," she cried, "and you shall see that I will not die." She did not carry out her mad purpose pur-pose at the time, but when her relatives rela-tives were not on guard she slipped away and wounded herself mortally. |
