The Breeze - August 4, 1910 - Page 1

Assaulted and murdered . . . was the awful fate of little Bessie May Morrison . . . within half a mile of her widowed mother's home, while on her way to school at Leonia school house in northwestern part of Holmes county, last Friday [July 29, 1910]. . . . The body of the victim was laid to rest in the Leonia cemetery Sunday afternoon.

[Contributed by Michael Strickland]