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Show POISONED RELATIVES WOMAN CONFESSES TO A HORRIBLE HOR-RIBLE CRIME. Poisoned a Baby, Then Its Mother, the Father Being the Third Victim Other Murders Believed to Have Been Committed. Mrs., Mary McKnight, who has been under arrest at Kalkaska, Mich., for several days, has confessed to the poisoning of her brother, John Murphy, Mur-phy, his wife and baby. The woman says she gave the baby strychnine, and when the mother discovered dis-covered what she had done she persuaded per-suaded her to take some medicine to steady her nerve, and gave her a fatal dose of strychnine. Two weeks after the death of the wife, John Murphy was poisoned. Eight other persons besides the three to whose murder Mrs. McKnight confessed, investigation shows, have . died in the past fifteen years under circumstances that, in connection with the woman's confession, are now thought to be very suspicious. All are said to have shown symptoms that are now believed be-lieved to Indicate strychnine poisoning. poison-ing. There was no suspicion against Mrs. McKnight in connection with the-Murphys the-Murphys until she filed a mortgage on their property after death. An Investigation Inves-tigation was then begun. The body of John Murphy was exhumed and strychnine found in the stomach. Mrs. McKnight was put under arrest, with the result that she confessed to the crime. t- t- . ! |