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Show MOTHER KILLS SELF AND THREE CHILDREN Fails to Strangle Babe; Two Other Little Ones Sent to Neighbor's j j Before Tragedy. ! BOULDER. Colo.. March 21. William Wil-liam A. Xelson, a dairyman, informed officers hero late today that when he returned to his home near here this afternoon he found his wife and three of his children dead. "Ralph, aged 2 rears, and Margaret, aged 3, he said, had been strangled by rags tied about i their necks. Ho told officers fod their bodies hanging from hooks in a closet. His wife and Boulah, aged 5, he said, he found shot through the body. Babv George, 3 months old, was found witn rags tied about his neck, but not dead. He will live. A note found in the house and attributed at-tributed to Mrs. Kelson, indicated her responsibility for the tragedy. Two other children were sent to a neighbor's by Mrs. Nelson early in the afternoon. |