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Show FATHER? AWFUL CRIME Cuts Throats of His Four Children, Fires Home And Suicides Mondosl. Wi3.. Feb. '21. Hans B. Hanson, a fanner living near St run, murdered his four children, a boy and three girls, whose ages range lrom five to fifteen years, early today. He Is supposed to have used a butcher knife, cutting their throats. He followed fol-lowed this awful quadruple crime by stabbing several horses and cows, fired the barn and house and then cut his .own throat. The bodies of the. children were cremated. Hanson was fifty years of age and a widower. He was once an inmate of an asylum. |