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Show FRENZIED MOTHER OBOISCIOBEN Four Helpless Little Ones Put to Death by Woman Who Bore Them. By Associated Press. ANTIOCH, Cal., July 30. Ono after another four little children were drowned in a tub today by their mother. The woman, Mrs. Joseph Mello, Mel-lo, walked away from her doad babies quietly and met" her neighbors who mine to arrest her, in calm spirit. Some thing had given way in her mind snapped without warning. Mrs. Mello was alone with her children chil-dren in hor homo n few miles east of hare. The oldest child was four, tho n ox I two yours and then came tho twins three months old. No one has boen able, to rehearse the details of the nathci'ic scene. When the husband left home the older children were playing and tho twins were asleep. When ho returned from work there was quiet and the cradle empty. Mello was almost overcome by grief, but ho found the sheriff, who took Mrs. Mello to the Martinez jail, the woman talking quietly quiet-ly on the way about ordinary things. She never before had given any evidence evi-dence of insanity. |