Show I I 1 I 1 I 9 IN FAMilY FOUND SLAIN HUSBAND HELDON HELD HELDON HELDON ON SUSPICION Bodies of Mother and Eight Children Buried Three Weeks SUSPECT IS DAZED He Tries to Kill Self When Search IsI Is Begun FARWELL Texas Dec 26 28 By The Tho Associated Press Press- Press Secrecy was maintained today re- re regarding re garding the tho whereabouts of GeorgeJ GeorgeS George S J Hassell ye 46 year old old r-old Texas Pan Panhandle Handle rancher who was wu charged Ith ith murder last night following the discovery of the bodies of his wife and her eight children In II a dugout at their ranch home bom near here Hassell was 1 removed from a aI hospital at Clovis N M last night nighta II a few hours nUt he ho had been taken taken there suffering from self self- Inflicted knife knite wounds Ho Ito stabbed himself yesterday when hen came Caine to search Ills his 1 ranch at the request of neighbors who reported the family had been missing near near- nearly nearly ly ly Iy three weeks MA MA SURVIVE J Physicians tit Bt doyle Clovis refuted to give details of ot Hassell's removal from the tho tb other than to say lY ho had been spirited away probably by officers Although doctors at first said eald he ho had little chance chanco for tor recovery they I later announced that while his condi condl condition condition tion was serious he probably would survive Authorities also withheld infer infer- In Information Cor- Cor mation mallon regarding regarding- Hassell They declined to confirm or deny reo re- reports re reports ports that ranchers had ad assembled at points along alone the th sot settled New tied Texas New Mexico border to dis discuss cuss CUllS the case Investigation of the Maying was as extended today to reports report of cir clr- clr circumstances In the tha death of Has tac Hassell's Ha tells tell's sells sell's brother whoso whose widow he married two years ears ago WEEKS The bodies were found wrapped In blankets and had been burled buried about three weeks the coroner said The Tho children ranged In age from two year years to 21 21 All except the tho youngest apparently had been killed Ith aith ft Ith an axe found In the dugout The Tho baby had been choked to death me The Th dead besides the mother Alton 21 Virgil 18 H Maud MauJ 14 Russell Rusell 12 David 7 John 6 Mamie 4 and Samuel 2 Neighbors said they paid little attention to tho the absence of o the family the first week weck as told them he planned to move mo to Oklahoma and had sent his wife and stepchildren there 1 lie also told of his affection for tor the children and plans he h had made for them This was 18 partly sub sub- sub substantiated neIghbors believed when he sold about 1500 worth werth of farm equipment about two weeks week ago HASSELL DAZED D Hassell appeared dazed when hen taken to the th hospital and was waa unable to tell toil of his movements during the last month A corre corre- correspondent correspondent correspondent of the Now News at Amarillo 90 miles mlle north of here report reported d Continued on Page rage Ten NINE MURDERED I IN ONE FAMilY FILY Continued from fron rage w One that ho was not told ot of o the find finding ing ot of the tho and that apparently apparently ho he was delirious from Crom th time officers appeared until ro- ro re removed moved d from the hospital The ranch is located lor iu III inthe tho plains section of the ran PanHandle Handle and until a 0 few Cew days dils ago was devoted mostly to grazing Although wheat farming brought many settlers tho the section still h I sparsely ely settled I |