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Show FACE STARVATION; Pfl FAMILY CHICAGO, April 21 Fear of Impending Im-pending starvation caused a father and mother to administer strychnine to themaehes and their two children, both under -l years old, today. The mother, Mrs. Honore Dzlurgot, and the olJor child, Joseph, are .dead, and the father ,and baby are In a hospital whero It Is said both will recover. Neighbors who heard moan? coming from the Dzlurgot cottage notified the police and found the woman and boy dead and tho others only conscious Dzlurgot In the hospital tonight told of the poverty which followed his long Illness and then related the desperate des-perate agreement with his wife that the two should poison themselves aqil their babies "With my last 25 cents," ho said, "I bought tho poison at a drug store. I took it homo and my wife and I mixed it In the little milk wo had left. Tho milk was the only food we had In tne house. Some was given giv-en to the children, my wife drank some and I drank the remainder. There was not enough for me, or I would have died with my wife and boy." Dzlurgot became 111 five weeks ago and was forced to leave his work His resources were exhausted and when he recovered his wife became 111 and the man could not leave her and the1" children. |