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Show I REVOLTING CRIME OF MOTHER. I Used Red Hot Iron on Children D- I cause They Made to Much Noise. 1 New York. Two llttlq, tots, Nellie I igcd 7 years, jind Jennie, 2 yuars 8 younger, told Magltitrnto Home in the I Harlem pollco court how tholr steo I mother, Mm. Kate Crovlim had brand- 1 ed them with a red-hot slovo lifter 1 when In play they had made too much I ( noise. Twice during tho recital, the prisoner, ii womnn of Intelligence and . of pleasing appearance, not more than iii years of ngo, fainted. When restored the woman admitted that she had binned tho children, but said that at tho time alio was pos HfiMed by an Miarcouutable mania. The two girls, she said, had been pitying pity-ing with their dolls until the noise and confusion robbed her of her rea son and loft n resistless Impulse to punish thollttlrt ones. Scltlng the stovo-lld lKlrr. she pressed the glow-- glow-- Ing end upon tho back nf the right hand of each child, causing scais that the little ones wilt carry to their ' .. gliWGH. A peculiar feutuio of the case was tho apparent alTecllon fqc the children ! folt by tho prisoner, that attachment ' being reciprocated. ' |