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Show BURGLAR BRUTALLY SLAYS TWO HELPLESS SPRINGFIELD WOMEN oooooooooooooooo o o O Springfield, Mass March 31. O O Miss Martha II. filuikstono, O O 25 Elliot street, (laughter of C. O O J. Illackstone, was murdered O O by a !ii!isked burglar In tho O O home of Mrs. Sarah J. Dow, at O O Round Hill, tonight. Miss liar- O O lict Dow, daughter of the O O house, was shot in the head O O and removed to Springfield O O hosplial dying. The murderer O O escaped. O O The police have no descrlp- O O tlon of the man. except the O O one Mrs. Dow and her daughter O O Lucy were "able to give. The O O police say In a general way tho O O crime resembles those of the O C man who terrorized ihe city O O last fall. O O 'Mrs. Dow, her two dmigh- O O ters and MIsr Wackstone, who O O was a guest for the night, were O O neated In the sitting room of O O the h..me, about a pmall table, O O solving a plcturo ipuzzle, when O O the intruder mudc a demand O O for money from the dining- O O room. They looked up to see O O a masked man In the dark O O .doorway threatening them with O O a revolver. .O O Mrs Dow retained her com- O O posure and replied, "We have O O no money." Hut Miss Rlack- O O stone, in fright. Jumped to her O O feet nd ran screaming Into a O O room to the right of the living O O room The burglar said, "If O O you want to be killed keep on O O screaming," and fired a shot as O O ho spoke, tho bullet entering O O Miss Dlackstone's left breast. O C Death followed instantly. O O The murderer hardly paused O O to see his victim fall before he O O turned tho revolver upon tho O O Kioup, shooting Miss Harriet O O Dow lu the head. Ho then ran O O to the front door, leaped over O O the piazza railing nud dlsop- O O pearod. O O O oooooooooooooooo |