| Show KILLS 4 CHILDREN AND SELF WITH GAS woman gives up long gle against odds new york pel imps if she bile lind not scorched scot ched a dress she falio was aa pressing a few days ugo ago mrs hildegard walus forty the five i year carold car old another inot lier of four finall children might linc have fought on a little longer but when one tins tills been struggling against hope crushing odds for the years year s it Is not easy to rally oven cn from what seems a comparatively nit ively light blow anil and mrs had to pa pay for the dross dress slie she had find scorched clied sometime during dining I 1 lie night silo she made her tragic decision neighbors learned what hat it had been when a policeman broke luto into her three roeln apartment and found tier her kneeling beside tho the body of tier lier he five year old son carl nearby on a bed were tile bodies of tier three older children mary eleven eleen helen ten and nd sonia eight the odor of gas ninde un unnecessary v the ambulance surgeons iia verdict erd lct mrs llilas wlas and her four children were dead because of unpaid bills tile gas company had hut shut s on oft the gas in tho the apartment severe beveill days before and he had locked tile the meter in the kitchen in ili order to get the lie death dealing furnes fumes mrs airs hii wlas tied had broken open the motor meter neighbors supplied a little of mrs story silo she wa vas s reticent and proud and while toward the last she slie was ns forced to accept charity for the children slie silo never ner accepted anything a thing for herself it was tills this pride that thai had find prevented tier her from going to an organized relief organization that and the fear that if she did so they might take the children from tier her she hurt find told a charity nurse that she left her husband in texas years ago |
