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Show - KILL8 FOUR CHILDREN, THEN 8HOOT8 HIMSELF Mother Finds Dead Bodies Upon Returning Re-turning Home From Her Work Fitchburg, Mass., April 14. Ernest Moschner 35, murdered his four children and then killed himself by shooting, at his home on Rollstone street today. Moechner's wife, upon returning from work, discovered the bodies of her children and husband with bullet holes in their heads. According to the police, the children chil-dren wero playing In tho yard when their father called them upstairs to his bedside. There, from tho marks ot the muddy feet, the officers bollevo ho lined tho children up in front of the bed. Whilo the frightened children were gazing at him, Moschner drew a revolver re-volver and fired at his eldest daughter, daugh-ter, Elsie, 12. Tho bullet entered the head near the left ear causing Instant death. Tho other children ovldontly broke from tho room madly, Ernost, C, tho youngest child, was found crumpled UfeleBS on the floor ot a closot in tho front room of tho same floor. Myrtle and Norman fled downstairs Myrtle sought rofugo In a closot but tho maddened father's unerring aim brought her down Just as sho stum bled over the threshold. Norman, tho older boy was found In tho coal bin, his torn clothes and a. blood spattered club besldo him giving mute ovldonco of a bravo but futlio struggle. Moschner then retraced his stops, first covering up Norman's body with rags and boards. Halting at tho closet clos-et ont be first floor, ho covered Myrtle's Myr-tle's body. Then entering his bed room, ho drew a sheet ocr Elsie's form as It lay on tho bed and, stand- 1 lng beside her, sent a bullet into his brain, causing instant death. |
