Show V KILLS WHOLE FAMILY CRAZED BY ILLNESS WOMAN COMMITS AWFUL DEED bra ned one C ch id ld and strangled the 1 others to death while temporarily deranged mrs louis iverson ot of monterey cal wife of a salinas machinist mac hinest murdered three ot of her four children sunday at the dictation she said of a su preme power she first strangled her eldest daugh ter louisa aged 12 years she then attempted the life of her eldest son aged 11 who had just come into the house but the boy broke away from her and took a tain t ain for his home I 1 in n salinas she then Ar wrangled angled her son harold aged 6 and then went out of the house and got an ax with which she struck him a blow on the head later in the evening she killed her 7 months month sold old baby maria marla by strangling the he murder of her children was re ba b mrs iverson to sheriff W J nesbitt she added that d iring tt tte e night she had walked about the house flyg down for a short time on the floor she said she realized now that she hid done wrong but believed she ass T doing right at the time she corn coin m meed ed the deed arly in the morning mr iverson hi lif self drove to pao fie grove he ln knocked I 1 aked at the front door of the rot ta fuhere his wife and family had be living and was told to go aro in I 1 to yie back door he did so and en on bering the houe was about to kiss his wife when she said dont don t touch me don t put your hands on me go and look at your children with ith that he opened the door of an adjoining room where law the bodies of the three children the boy on one bed and two girls on another the house was in disorder and indications were plentiful that the two older chil cliff dren bad had struggled hard against their death mrs iverson had been III for several months and had shown signs ot of mental derangement her mania be ing of a religious nature |