A Mother’s Terrible Mistake

Steele Scrapbook – January 10, 1886

 

A MOTHER’S TERRIBLE MISTAKE.

BALTIMORE, Jan. 10.—Mr. and Mrs. George M. Boarman buried their eldest son, Joseph Clinton, aged five years, yesterday morning. Twelve hours later, Marie, their eldest daughter, a child of three years, who was recovering from diptheria, died from the effects of a dose of carbolic acid given by the child’s mother in mistake for medicine.

 

Taken Terribly From Alf

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