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Show MANIAC KILLS FOUR CHILDREN NEW YORK, March 10 W.R) Police of five states today sought John McHale, CWA worker, who disappeared Saturday a few minutes min-utes before his wife discovered their four children beaten to death with a hammer. m McHale was last seen running from his appartment, hatless and without an overcoat. A few minutes min-utes later, his wife, returning from a store with milk for her children, entered the apartment. Helen, 4, Anna, 6, Margaret, 5, and Agnes, 18 months, were dead. McHale, according to Deputy Chief Inspector Henry Bruckman, had been confined last September and October at the Manhattan State hospital for observation. |