Show 0 f IAn I THE MANIAC MOTHER I An Awful Story of a Mexican Woni ans Madness j Denver 5The details of a horrible I hor-rible tragedy at Lampasas Mexico 01 Ion I-on the Mexican Rational railway 1 are just received On a ranch t i near Lampasas lived a welltodo i Mexican named Antonio Valdez t f trfiose family consisted of his wife and five children the oldest 10 the r 1 1 youngest 2 The wife had been subject II sub-ject to spells of melancholy and I i often > exhibited marks of temporary i I insanity At such times she invariably f r t in-variably sought to do violence her > f little ones Last Wednesday during t j the absence of her husband the 1 I woman was attacked by a fit of unusual i un-usual severity during which she f grabbed a huge butcher knife and Ir i Lat L-at once began the work of de f J atruction The old child a sweet gIrl of 10 and the first to fall be tt i J t neath the wild mothers heivy I blows The victims head wasaF J 1 f r I most severed from the body With fi I i methodical madness peculiar to the i ft insane in quick succession she slew ftI i the other children hacking and K f I stabbing them in a most barbarous 4 I and eiekening manner Suddenly tjt j i taking a parting look at the dead A she plunged the knife into her own 4 1 I j breast The next morning the parish i par-ish priest arrived and amid the j 1 j sobbing and wailiug of those present i A pre-sent the sad funeral rit s were performed per-formed i I |