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Show ttmmr mm FACES MM CHARGE Alleged to Have Put Infants to Death and Burned Bodies in Furnace. .DBS MOINBS, Feb. I. Mrs! Fred West, proprietor of a "baby farm," was arrested today on a charge of murder in the Hrst degree, it being alleged al-leged that she put an infant to death by means of laudanum uscd because of its blindness. Affidavits wore, filed with the local magistrate in which it is charged that bodies of a number of infants born at. Mrs. West's home were burned in the furnace. Mrs. West was placed in the county jail. She will be given a preliminary examination exam-ination tomorrow. |