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MAN AND FIVE CHILDREN. DEMENTED PARENT’S ACT. ESCAPE OF HIS ONLY DAUGHTER FLIGHT IN FREEZING NIGHT. I (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 2.15 p.m.) MONTREAL, Feb. 3. A message from Regina (Saskatchewan) states that while his wife was at a party, Joseph Jost, a farmer, set five to his home, burning himself and five children to death. His only daughter, Annie, aged 15, who slept in the same room as her father, escaped after a struggle with her apparently demented parent. The girl leaped from a window into the snow, running a mile to a neighbour’s, scantily clad, in a temperature of 30 degrees below zero. Her legs and feet were badly frozen. The other five children, in an adjoininig room, perished in their beds.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 96, 4 February 1936, Page 5
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