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Show REVOLTING CRIME OF MOTHER. Used Red Hot Iron on Children Because Be-cause They Made to Much Noise. Now York. Two little tots, Nelllo, ged 7 years, nnd Jennie, 2 years roungor, told Magistrate House In the Harlem pollco court how tholr stepmother, step-mother, Mm. Kato Cravlus had branded brand-ed them with a red-hot stove lifter when in play they had made too much noise. Twice during tho recital, tho prisoner, a woman ot intelligence and of pleasing appearance, not moro than t years ot ago, fainted. When restored tho woman ndmltted that sho had burned tho children, but said that at tho tlmo she was possessed pos-sessed by an huaccountable mania. Tho two girls, sho said, had beon piny-Ing piny-Ing with their dolls until tho noise and confusion robbed her of her reason rea-son and left a resistless Impulso to punish tho llttlo ones. Seizing the stove-lid lifter, sho pressed tho glowing glow-ing end upon tho back ot the right hand of each child, causing scars that tho llttlo ones will carry to tholr graves. A peculiar feature of tho case was the apparent affcotlon for the chlldron folt by tho prisoner, that attachment being reciprocated. |