Bloomington (IN) Evening World, August 7, 1917, p. 1. BABY KILLS MOTHER New Albany, Ind, Aug. 6-Mrs. Austin Hough, 28, was shot and instantly killed by her son, Austin Hough, Jr., 3, at the home of her father, William Thompson, eleven miles north of here. The child was playing with a flobert (sic) rifle and placed a cartridge in the gun that he fired at his mother. The bullet struck her in the heart.