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Show ' MURDERED SEVER BABES THEN KILLED HERSELF Horrible Crime of Illinois Woman Who Became Temporarily Insane Hutbands Sulcldet When He Learns of Tragedy, nock Inland, III Mrs. Clarenco Markham of Cambridge, near here, In a fit of temporary Insanity on Saturday, Satur-day, killed her seven children with an 'axe, after which sho placed their bodies In a bed, saturated It with coal nil nnd set lire to It. Bho then hacked her throat with a knife and 4hrow herself on tho burning bed. Neighbors rescued her, but she was fo bsdly burned that Bho died soon after sho had mado a confession, The eldest child wns nine years old, tho youngest a baby In arms. t I-ato Saturday night Clarenco !J. Mnrkhnm, husband and father of the 'victims of tho tragedy, committed suicide sui-cide by shooting himself after tying a rope around his neck so that it (would choke him to death in case tho 'bullet failed to do Its purpose. |