FEARFUL TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1934, Page 5

FEARFUL TRAGEDY

FIVE PEOPLE DEAD

WOMAN’S PRESUMED CRIME.

(United Press Association—By Electric

Telegraph—vOopyright).

NEW YORK, Dec. 8.

The Pennsylvania police have partly unravelled the details Of a fearful crime involving the deaths of five people who ha vie not 'been identified. On Saturday, the bodies of . three golden-haired girls—of from eight to f/(ten ot fegla, and evidently sisters ware found beneath a blanket; near the side of a lonely mountain road near Carlisle. They had evidently been dead for two days. Post-mortem examinations indicated ?V,phyxiation, probably by motor-ca r fumes, as the cause of death. There were no mark*, of violence. Almost at the same hour the police found the bodies of a man about 50, and of ‘a woman apparently 25 years of age, in an abandoned railway station near Altoona.. 100 mites from Carlisle. Piecing the tragedy together, the police say they believe that the woman ‘and hex three step-daughters travelled by omnibus from New York to Carlisle, where they, met the gD'ls’ father. The woman killed the children, ap after laying out their bodies with great ( care, travelled Wife hex husband to Altoona, where she shot him and then committed suicide.