Show MURDERED SEVEN GAGES THEN KilLED HERSELF Horrible Crime of Illinois Woman Who Became Temporarily Insane Husbands Suicides When He Learns of Tragedy Rock Island IIIMrs Clarence Markham of Cambridge near hero In a fit of temporary Insanity on Saturday Satur-day killed her seven children with tfu axe after which she placed their Bodies In a bed saturated It with coal oil and set lire to It She then hacked her throat with a knife and threw herself on the burning bed Neighbors rescued her but she was Jso badly burned that she died soon after she had made a confession The eldest child was nine years old the youngest a baby In arms Late Saturday night Clarence E jMarklmm husband and father of tho victims of the tragedy committed sul tide by shooting himself after tying I a rope around his neck so that It would choke him to death In case the bullet failed to do Its purpose |