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Show liy W. O.Telwaph.l HOKK1ULE TIIAGKDY IS OHIO. Dayton, 0., U. Leonard Mariruard who murdered his wife and children is in.-ano. The history of the affair is this. A few days ago he read a chapter chap-ter to his family from the Bible and then rising up accused hiii wife of be-1 lug a witch and using witchcraft. He says the oldest daughter confirmed him in the accusation, and also that on Saturday night he told his wife that he wanted their children to leave, and , both he and his wife stripped naked j and knelt down and prayed for fifteen I minutes. They then stripped the two I children, took them out and drowned them and laid them side by side on the I bank of the stream, and dashed out the ; brains of the infant and left it lying in I the woods, after which they returned home and weut to bed. After lying ) there fifteen minutes he told his wife that he wanted to send her to heaven 'also, and immediately fell upon her and j strangled her to death; after that he I arose and prayed until ' a.m., when he went to the nearest neighbor and told ; the whole story. Marguard is aGer-j man farmer and has bftco in this country about eight years. The woman was his second wife. |