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Show no j ! Gi. - V- '! ' - -'. : lv, , , : ; 7 (Special to The Telegram.) . TOUNGSTOWN. O.. July A thrill of horror has been caused In this community by the killing of six-year-old Elsie ' Anderson, who was beaten to death by her stepmother, Mrs. Jennie Anderson. Two years ago the wife of Hans An-, derson died and another woman came from Denmark to marry him. Coroner Klyne says the case of the murdered child Is the most horrible In his experience. Mrs. Anderson confesses con-fesses that she caused Elsie's death. The Coroner found the little one's body covered from head to foot with braises. There was a great red welt around the neck, and -the hands were cruelly lacerated, apparently in an effort ef-fort to ward off the fata! blowa Patches of skin were torn from the child's back, and at the corner of one eye was a hole, apparently made by the head of a nail. The post-mortem examination showed that there' was no food In the stomach or large Inteetinea Neighbors told of having seen blood-stained bandages hung on the fence, In her confession Mra Anderson declared the utmost devotion to her stepdaughter, but said the child had made her angry. She was crazy over the provocation and had beaten the little one unmercifully with a lath. Elsie was put to bed and hidden from her father. She picked the bandages from her wounda The result was more beatings of Increasing severity. Three weeks of this treatment the child endured and then passed from earth. Then Anderson first learned of the condition of affairs, and notified the police. "I did not see Elsie In those three weeks." he said. "My wife said she was tending to the children, and it was none of my business. Anderson says his wife locked herself her-self in a room and saturated her clothing cloth-ing with kerosene, with the Intention of committing suicide; hut he broke in and overpowered her before she had applied the match. Neighbors declare that while Mrs. Anderson was much given to neighborhood neigh-borhood quarrels-she has shown no evidences of Insanity. |