A special to the Herald from Severance,…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

A special to the Herald from Severance, Kansas, where the Freeman murder occurred, yesterday, says that Mrs. K. D. Smith, whose son married a daughter of Samuel Freeman, the man who shot his wife, child and himself, was so shocked when she heard of the tragedy, that she was taken violently ill and died within a few hours.