Show A MODERN MEDEA AV aaman botnan in new york city shoots her three children fatally and ana alfen th en kills herself with the fonita sat by ely W v U Telee moli to the uie II 11 NEW YOCK oct jl mrs samuel sequin aged SG 36 wife of dr adv edward ard seg seguin u in notye t I palla liot of diseases of the 11 e brain rid n billed ilk bb efer three young yo ling children this afternoon and then killed hei acif at 11 41 avea twentieth street th there ei e la is no oilier bause aasc known forthe fur the horrible tragedy dy than lio tile insanity of the tile mollier the tile children hildren az were re I ednard D nned years job john N aldwyne an dwyne aged and jeannatte tte they nil all shot the head liea dand abild instantly killed the tile ars death was as sudden as theirs A frightful feature of if the is the manner of mrs seguin took the tile chil childred drep ci to an empty vipa re room in the top of ofanio a five story empe or aliouse te in ill the i absence of or her bus ban band a and when th e servants were en page s d in the base basement ment and lock locked M herself in in with aith them the tile servants ser vanta believed eho rho had one out fura furn walk what happened from then mill will never be known but when tt hen dr amidon mrs Se guins brother called ata at and with his ills suspicion aroused by her long absence tho family made a beardi of the house the motherland mot mother herand and children were found dead all shot through tho tile head the childrens hands bands were hero tied behind their thel backs with acord cord vicy were blindfolded with a handkerchief and from all appearances must have been been shot while playing t bli bull with their executioner they were dead for atlea stan hour and a half and N were r ere quite cold when disco discovered ered rree h pistols pi were w ero found in the room all of heavy caliber and all bad had been used sirs mrs seguin had been despondent from physical causes for colne time but she had shown no signs of insanity she was ft a small slim woman and oK of nervous temperament her do lifo life was very happy and thero was no iio family trouble dr seguine returned home about and upon hearing the dreadful neta news was utterly prostrated lie is in in a state of mental distress and ia is under tinder tho the edre care of physicians dr se begum aln is is a noted specialist in iii caus of insanity ilia father was equally eo so his ilia wife was alie daughter of a massachusetts farmer the couple moved inthe in the best of society the servants noticed durine the day that mrs se beian taki was in in a moody condition as abo had bee been n for fop several weeks bilich which h her arb brother dr amidon termed the tile ill bluda aes ues at 11 lie called upon her and slie she said she did not feel well and had written dr llena henry 31 aser who had been invited lyt to d alno no with the family to defer his visit this noto note she pave gave her brother to send ho ile took it jokingly and said they would all lall enjoy themselves dr amidon called on his sister at and was told she had gone out for a walk ile returned at but mra seguin had not yet returned tho the hall boy incidentally mentioned that the door to tho the room was locked and the key waa gone zone A sudden suspicion acion seized he doctor that mrs aguin had cone to tile central park and anti drowned herself and the tile children he lie could not explain why lie bethought thought this he lie immediately w went ent up upstairs stairs and burst the door of the room open and the horrible horr lIe sight met I his its i eyes ile almost in the middle of th the P floor I lay the dead the elda eldest at boy E edward in a pol pool of blood bloo dand and partly in a closet lay mrs Se gras grasping in her right hand a big pearl handled revolver inside tile closet lay the boy john and tho the girl jeannette could be bil no doubt tho the m othar had taken tho tile children in the room on the tile pretense of laying mind delaying mans bur r she ba had dp led the two youn ept nto tho closet and locked them hila bile she murdered the oldest boy tuo mic pistol with which he hula wan ahot iras was practice w capon with a barrel eleven inches long it lay beside hi lil mand tho the bullet layon lay on tho tile floor it had pas macd through his ilia head lead the tile murderous mur derois mother then proceeded to the tile closet and with a heavy thirty two call caliber bee revolver with which eho she afterwards blew out her own brains shot theother two children cli ildren dr amidon cut the strings that bound the bands and laid them thein on a abed bed the coroner was waa roti notified fied at a once nothing was found in the room to explain the motive forthe for the terrible crime the murderess held tile weapon close to tile victims victim shead head for the handkerchiefs on faces had liben burned the face ortho of tho little girl was wis one of innocent surp surprise riso that deeply than any other features of the dreadful 41 deed anz oil tile table lay a box of cartridges and a third pistol dr coplin when he returned was taken to his ilia office and physicians summoned he lie acted as though lna ilia faculties were gone iio caught sight of a picture of the chil drenon tle the wall and broke into a horrible horri blo wailing cry that wrong the heart of the listeners the physicians fear fearce lie will w ill lose his ilia re reason a none of the servants heard beard any noise sudden insanity it is th the only n motive known for th the deed eed mrs D dr seguin was neatly dressed the children were lovely little things and all the family she had |