Logan Republican | 1903-03-27 | Page 6 | Killed All Her Babies

KILLED ALL HER BABIES. Awful Crime of a Massachusetts Mother. A frenzied mother In the little hamlet ham-let of FIskdalo, Mass., after cutting oft every jneans of escape by fastening fasten-ing windows and doors, crushod in the heads of hor four littlo children, threw their bodies Into a closet, scattered oil ovor thorn and herself, nnd then, after Betting all on flro, closed her awful work and her own llfo by cutting hor throat. It waB Mrs. Peter Durke, the wife of a machinist in an augur factory, fac-tory, who committed tho fearful deed, and hor victims woro 1,111a, 6 years old; William. 5 years old; Louise, 1 years, nnd May Roso, 5 months.