Show Gas Kills Mother and 3 Children 1 01 i MARTINSBURG W W. Va Vs May 28 jib AP APA AP A mother and nd her three children children chil chil- dren dien were found dead In their home homo here today with gas escaping from open Jets in a stove Police be believe believe believe be- be lieve the woman had been brooding over the death of oC her own mother and took the lives of ot the tho little fam tam II ily The body of ot the mother molher Mrs Clara Manford anford 39 was found on the floor of ot the kitchen Nearby on feather beds lay the children Elizabeth 11 Fanny 10 and John Jr 8 The womans woman's mother Mrs Elizabeth Elizabeth Eliz Eliz- abeth Seckman drowned in the Potomac Potomac Po Po- tomac river near here last August Her husband John Manford was wasat wasat wasat at work during the night |