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Show CAPTAIN KILLS I BABY AND TAKES 1 HIS OWN LIFE I V I PORTLAND, Ore , July 1 R. w. f Stafford Jr.. plant superintendent of F a food manufacturing company here, fc and a former captain in the Minne.-ota i Htale .guard, killed his' year old baby, g, Richard, with a hatchet at his home , ! today, dangerously wounded his wife . H and a five year old son, Wirt, set fire W to the residence and then killed him- self Police who investigated, ascrib- F; ed the act to temporary insanity f Richard BUI lord, an eleven-year old i son, said his father attacked his mo- J 11 ther and baiy brother with a halt-hot I as ihey lay in play on a bed The 'h j older boy tried to escape from the F room with his small brother but th i I father pursued them, the boy said, and g struck Wtrt several times with the I hatchet. f When tie police arrived the house Iff was burning and Stafford was dead With his throat cut. . Richard said there had been no pre- . L j vious trouble in the family. f oo |