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Show KILLS 4 CHILDREN AND SELF WITH GAS Woman Glues Up Long Struggle Strug-gle Against Odds. New York. Perhaps If she had not scorched a dress she was pressing a few days ago, Mrs. Hildegard Wywlus, forty-live-yea r-old mother of four small children, might have fought on a little longer, litit when one bus been struggling against hope-crushing odds for flvt years, it Is not eusy to rally, even from what seems a comparatively compar-atively light blow. And Mrs. U'ywlns hod to pay for the dress she had scorched. Sometime during the night she made her tragic decision. Neighbors learned what it had been when a policeman broke Into her three-room apartment and found her kneeling beside be-side the body of her five-year-old son, Carl. Nearby, on a bed, were the bodies of her three older children, Mary, eleven; Helen ten, and Sonla, eight. The odor of gas made unnecessary the ambulance surgeon's verdict. Mrs. Wywins and her four children were dead. T.eeause of unpaid bills, the gas company hud shut on the gas in me npnrtment several days before nnd had locked the meter In the kitchen. In order to get the death-dealing fumes Sirs. Wywlas had broken open the meter. Neighbors supplied a little of Mrs. Wywlas' story. .She was reticent and proud and, while toward the last she wns forced to accept charity for the children, she never accepted anything : for herself. It was this pride thut had prevented her from going to an or-; or-; ganized relief organization. That and : the fenr that If she did so they might ! take the children from her. She had told a charity nurse that she left her husband in Texas five years ago. |