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Show 1 ADMITS TERRIBLE GRIME I MI8S0URIAN AND HIS DAUGHTER SLAIN WITH AN AXE AS THEY LAY IN THEIR BEDS. Wife Declares Thst She Was Impelled Im-pelled by a Force That She Could Not Resist and Disclaims Responsibility Re-sponsibility for Crime, Hsrrlsonvllle, Mo. Mrs. Arthur Keller confeosed late Thursday that It was she who killed her hiwband, a railroad laborer, and their daughter, Margaret, 7 years old. Kellar and the girl were slain with an axe as they lay In their beds. "God knows I would not have killed them had 1 known what I was doing," do-ing," Mrs. Kellar said In her confession. confes-sion. She declared she had frequently frequent-ly been Irresponsible for her acts since she received a blow on the bead to years ago. tn her confenslon Mrs. Kellar relates re-lates that when she went to bed Monday Mon-day night she was feeling badly, and lay down with ber clothes on. Later she awoke, and, Impelled by a force she could hot resist, she says, she secured se-cured the axe, and, returning to the room where her husband and Margaret Mar-garet were asleep In the same bed. atruck them both, blow upon blow. Only after the deed was done did she reallie what she was doing, she declares. de-clares. "I remember striking tbem both," the confession says, "but I don't know which one ! struck first. The blind wss up and I could see them there In bed." ' |