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Show KILLS WHOLE FAMILY CRAZED BY ILLNESS WOMAN COMMITS AWFUL DEED. Drained One Child and Strangled the Others to Death. Whllo temporarily deranged, Mrs. Louis Ivorson, of Monterey, Cal., wlfo of a Salinas mnchlncst, murdered thrco of hor four children Sunday nt tho dictation, sho said, of "n supremo su-premo power." Sho first strangled her oldest daughter, daugh-ter, Louisa, aged 12 yoars. Sho then nttomptcd fho llfo of her oldest son, nged 11, who had Just romo into tlio house, hut tho boy broko nway from her nnd took a train for his homo In Salinas. Sho then strangled her son, Harold, aged 0, nnd then went out of the houso nnd got an nx with which sho struck him a blow on tho hold. Later In the evening cho killed hor 7, months-old baby Maria, by strangling. Tho murder of her chlldron was related re-lated by Mrs. Ivermn to Sheriff, W. J. Kesbltt Sho added that during tho night sho had wnlked about tho house. Ivlng down for a short tlmo on tho floor. Sho said she realized now tint rite hid done wrontr. but believed sho was doing right' nt tho tlmo sho committed com-mitted tho deed. Eirlv In tho morning Mr. Ivcrson hl'r.Folf drove to Pacific Grove. Ho knocked nt thn front door of thn cot-tngo cot-tngo wliero his wlfo nnd family had been living and was told to go around to tho back door. He did ro, and en-terlng en-terlng tho hou-n was about to kins hh wlfo when pho said: "Don't touch 1110 Don't put your hinds on mo. Go nnd look at your children." With tint he opened the door of an ndtolnlng room whore law tho bodies of thn threo children, tho boy on ono bed nnd two girls on nnother. Tho houro was In disorder nnd Indications woro plentiful that tho two oldor children chil-dren had struggled hard against their death. Mrs. Iverpon had been 111 for savornl months and had shown signs of montal derangement, her mania being be-ing of n religious nature |