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Show SLAYS - SELF AFTER . Klliil 5 CHEN, Mrs. Everett Crozier Com-! rnits A"wf ul Crime Near Greeley, Colorado. GREELEY, Colo., Jan. 10. Returning to his home from work, earl; tonight Everett Crozier, a farmer residing near here, found the bodies of his five children chil-dren lying- iir the bouse shot to death and his wife lying unconscious in a field near by with a pistol in her hand. The children were Lois, aged 12; Mil- drcd, S; Margaret, 5; Mary, 2, and the fifth was an infant. Mra. Crozier, who was found after a search by the husband, deputy sheriffs and neighbors, died soon afterwards. A bullet wound In the head apparently was self-inflicted. Late today Dr. W. P. Allen of Greeley received a telephone message from Mrs. Crozier asking him to come at once to the Crozier home. "You're needed here," she told the physieion. Ncaring the home, Dr. Allen encountered encoun-tered Crozier, and when asked the reason rea-son for the call Crozier said he knew of none. When the two men entered the house the bodies of four of the children were found lying on a bed and the baby in a cradle near by. Crozier said he heard no shots, a note, found on a table and believed to have been written by Mrs. ; Crozier, accused Crozier of infidelity and , declared "I don't want my children to i grow up in a house of shame." A search, in which neighbors joined, ! resulted in the discovery of the dving ! woman in a dry ditch nearly a mile from! the home. The Croziers were married fifteen years! ago at Mound City, Mo. Neighbors and friends tonight declared ! they knew of no grounds for the charges! against Crozier contained in the note, i They added that Mrs. Crozier had been , acting strangely of late and recently 1 chased a neighbor woman from her home ! with a butcher knife. i Coroner A. B. Peck tonight took charge of the bodies and announced that a full ' investigation would be made. j |