Frenzled Mother's Crime.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 267, 28 December 1903, Page 4

Frenzled Mother's Crime.

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<T dramatic 3urrend°eX «,e JoliTo" a ~ took L B6l^^ tho . place ln Berl 'n earlv on the mormng of Nov. n, in om f " n Berlin's oldest houses ° This «:«.mo * e "iei a sanatorium, inisi seems to have preyed on her «»nd, and she had shown signs of nervous trouble. Nobody, however her to be insane o^ZAccording l 0 the story she told th* Sf a Vfo DnmkSr * Were ? resu t of a deliberate plan. On the »™- ceding nig,M, she stated "she prodded h ei{se ]f wHh a cloth-Vltae Earlv'TthT 1 U f ? F ** r P»W----i-ariy m the morning, when her three boys were still asleep, she took the youngest, aged /our years, from the fed, placed the rope round his neck Sen*"* y him on door" mtcn. So expeditiously was the deed perfor lned that the little fePow had w time to realise what was happennerseif by the open window, and i Mbo » r - Then she put the dead boy in bed beside the „w .n g a^ at '^ rß '- and *"*■ u " the next hL£;'i h 0 SIX ->ear-old Martin, and hanged him in a similar way l.e'ore ittobed aWate ' repladn ff hiw a, *° »• Again the mother waited half an Then she took the eldest boy f rj;D *. W ' , In this case the victim awoke and asked : "What are you doing mother "' I m only putting you in another bed, was the reply. The boy struggled vainly to fi (P himsell l'Lom the rope, ami in a f C w minutes ho also was dejJ. Then the woman arranged these i.hree M'tle corpses in the bed, and went out to give herself up to th<: police. A policeman was siii'pr.vcT at six o clock in the morning to meet a youngish woman with dishevelled hair who, pointing to the windows of adjoining npartinencs, said ■ "A woman has killed her three children up there." "Who is siie ?" inquired the oflieer Myself," M- the woman's answer.

With this she walked with the policeman to the scene of the tragedy, where lay the dead bodies of the three little boys, one of which was still! »-anii.i Efforts were made (to restore lilV>, but without success