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Show 'POLICE TACKLE RARE MYSTERY Twins Bom, Says Husband; They Were Only Dolls, Wife Declares HAMMnxp, inri . Oct 18. Accused by her middle-aged hushand of killing tlic two babies, twins, which he nanl were born to her last December. Mr.s. Hazel M Nally, 21, faced trial hero today, claiming the missing twins -wens nothing more (ban cleverly constructed con-structed dummy dolls "mothered" by her until last April to satisfy her husband's hus-band's ambition to bo known to tho world as a father. POIiICIS 1HC3 IN YARD. Poth Frank McNally, the husband and his estranged wife, asserted their claims would be proved by witnesses called to testify nt the trial. Police dtiR until lat- Tuesday nlpnt In the yard of the homo where the UcNallys lived until laxt April, searcli-ing searcli-ing for the 'bodies" they had been told might bo burled there. In .upport of her claim, Mrs. Mc-Xally Mc-Xally declared she told Iit husband, after their marriage in April, 1921,' that She had undergone :n one-ration i at Grcenbay, Wis.. In 191 9, which niade It impossible for her to become a mother 11IXTKD TO NLIGHIIORS. Mrs. McNally .s;iiil &lio hinted to neighbors as tho time approached to announce the birth. enc.'K-'d a nurs and then proceeded to make skilfully! constructed dolls. She aaid she kept the 'twins' carefully hidden from the curious eyos of neighbors until last April, when sho and tier husband circulated cir-culated the report that they had sent the children to Chicago Mrs. McNally asld sho and her husband moved to South Bend. Ind , in July and that she left him September 22. |