Show Wounded Mother Thin Thinks ks Only of Her Children Mrs Magda Festin Taken to Hospital Hospit l' l Unaware Unaware Unaware Un Un- aware aware Husband Had Killed Self HARMS l l By 1 KAY Although bleeding Internally and suffering great pain palO Mrs Magda Festin year old five children who was shot by of those five children on Daniel Festin sUn Friday morning morning- thought only the torturous ride in a city ambulance to the general hospital st Stoically lC liy dismissing her own awn own suf suf suffering fering Mrs z-e z 61 looked steadily dIly into the thc eyes ey s of her her two daughters Margaret 20 20 and Ellen 18 who sat by her side in the ambulance struggling struggling gling to ke keep p b- b back ck th the telltale tears that would betray the their fear that she would die Nor did by any word or gesture th that t the they knew V what their mother did not not that that their father and her husband was dc dead d D Dead ad and beyond beyond be be- yond the reach of ot the law for the crime he had committed be all right mother dont don't you worry Margaret said She arranged ar as- ranged a thin pink scarf a n bit more closely over her mothers mother's head It Isn't me Mrs Festin said in a alow alow alow low voice Its Ils the y young ung ones They need me for them Those young ones are Emma 16 Carl 14 14 and the baby of the family Carl 12 i When the ambulance struck one of the many bumps on Slate State st s1 en route to the hospital increasing Mrs F Festin's Festin's Fes- Fes sUns s. s tins tin's pain she gave no word Her blue lips tightened and she winced Nor from rom those lips did the whole of sordid story of the background the drama come Mrs Festin oJ admitted only that there had berz difficulties Chiefly over religious she said But from Margaret the eldest Continued on Page PAce Two WIFE THINKS OF CHILDREN Wounded Woman Keeps Si Silent Silent Si Si- lent About Seriousness of Her Injuries ries Continued from Pan Page One daughter another mo her side of ot the pi picture pitie was brou brought ht to light V Father III lii Tempered Tather Father had a a b bad d tem temper er she said Yes he did beat mother when we ve were younger And Arid then there was trouble over money He lie would never give mother any ony money Not that hat we didn't have plenty of ot V food tood and things like that but it was just jut he was vas peculiar about bout money money Had there been a definite quarrel just preceding the shooting No NoM Margaret said sai He Much too quiet t and calm adm There were no witnesses es to the tragedy trag edy Margaret sold raid She was the last lasto to o leave the home horne Mrs Festin h had ld seen the younger children of off to school chool Ellen was at work ork and she herself her her- self had not been gone from the house mariy many minutes to her owr job when the he shoo shooting ng occurred Margaret maintained a brave front while her mother was in the tb emergency emer erner- gency hospital Then th the nurse ap ap- p. p l If you have anything V you want to ask your mother If it there is anything you feel you should you know had beter bet bet- ter er talk to her now the nurse said She may lose consciousness any minute min mm ute then it would be to too late Margaret wept |