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- Mon, Jan 12, 2009
Gazette & Courier - Monday, August 23, 1875
News of the week

The wife of Capt. Phill Bessenger of Reading, PA, accompanied by her 3 children, two boys and a girl, aged respectively 9, 6, and 3 years, left her home Tues. aft., and walking up the tow path of the Union canal to near Grings Mill, 3 miles north of the city, and deliberately walked in and drowned herself and children. The bodies were discovered.
Subjects: Accident Victims, Business Enterprises, Canals, Children, Crime, Criminals, Family, Murder, Rivers / Lakes / Oceans, Suicide, Women