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Show TI TOIEUPECIM A Horrible Crime Discovered by the Police in St Petersburg, Russia. TENUESSEE DEMOCRATS . MEET. The Coroner's Inquest at Chicago The Empress Goes Home With Ma Eailroad Meeting Other News. St. Petersburg, April 3. Special The arrest today of a midwife named Skublinski has caused o, sensation. The investigation into her case by the authorities au-thorities has produced startling developments. devel-opments. For some time the woman, who belonged to the working class, had been secretly receiving young illegitimate illegiti-mate children ostensibly to take care of, but really to murder them. The attention atten-tion of the police having been directed to the woman they made an unexpected examination of her house and they found several cradles with threo babies in each. She was summoned before a magistrate, but as she feared that her appearance iu court would bring her disgraceful trade to light, she resolved to destroy all traces of the crimes. During Dur-ing the night she set tiro to the house, after having first murdered tho children committed to her charge. Then this woman went and stood uniong the excited ex-cited crowd and calmly awaited the result. re-sult. The firemen broke into the house and rescued the dead bodies of thirty children. At the inquest it was stated by medical men that tho children had been murdered, and that their death was not caused by suffocation. The age of tho children could not be decided on, although none of them appeared to be older than six weeks. Sublinski is over thirty years of age. She is a handsome woman, but has a hard, cold expression in her eyes. |