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Show lOBliLS BURIED ALIVE Michigan Farmer Confesses He Chloroformed Them and Put Them Under Mud LANSING. Mich., Oct. 13 Earl Roop, a farmer, was arraigned Tuesday Tues-day on a charge of murdering his daughters, Dorothy and Bernlce, aged 3 and 2, respectively, whom he buried on his farm ten miles from here Mon-day, Mon-day, according to his reported confes-lOn confes-lOn to Sheriff Sllbee. Prelimin.tr;' hearing was set for today after Roop bad stood mute, and a plea of not M,ilt had been entered by the cour'.. Despondency over financiul matters and the failure of his crops, according to the sheriff, was given by Roop as the reason for his alleged act. He was ! quoted as saying that he had been pon Idering the idea of taking the lives of his babies for nearly a year In a matter of fact manner, accord-ling accord-ling to the sheriff, Roop told of taking Ithe children from his house on Monday Mon-day to a field through which ran the Red Cedar river. There. Roop said, ho administered chloroform to the little lit-tle girls and then set about digging a hole In the soft earth near the river. While he was thus engaged, Doro thy revled, Roop told the sheriff, and talked over to him. He then carried Bernlce to the river and placed both children In the hole, coerlng their bodies with mud, Silbee quoted him as saying. Officers would not believe the man's atorj until they had gone with him to the spot and found the bodies of the babies. The mother of the girls Is in a critical criti-cal condition at her home where six ,la .i.,n she e bll III tO ,'1 SOn. liO has not been told of the fate of her other babo s |