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Show t MURDERED SEVEH BABES- t THEN KILt'ED HERSELF Horrible Crime of Illinois Woman Who Became Temporarily Insane-Husbands Insane-Husbands Suicides When He Learns of Tragedy. Bock Island. Ill Mrs. Clarenco Mnrkham of Cambridge near hero. In n fit of tomporary Insanity on Saturday, Satur-day, killed hor seven children with an axe, after which she placed their bodies In a bed, saturated .it with coal oil and set lire to It. She then hacked her throat with a kntfo and 4hrow herself on tho burning bed. Neighbors rescued her, but eho was pa badly burned that sho died soon after sho had made a confession. Tho .oldest child was nine years old, tho lyqungest a baby In nrms. Lato Saturday night Clarenco E. Markhnm, husband and fnthor of tho "victims of the tragedy, committed suicide sui-cide by shooting himself nftcr tying ,a rope around his neck so that It Iwould choko him to death in case tho Ibullet failed to do Its purpose. |