FEARFUL U.S. CRIME.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20484, 10 December 1934, Page 1

FEARFUL U.S. CRIME.

Five Dead in Domestic Tragedy. NEW YORK. December 3. The Pennsylvania police have party solved a fearful crime, involving the leaths of five persons who have not yet been identified. On Saturday, the bodies of three golden-haired girls—of from 8 to 15 years of age, and evidently sisters — were 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 asphyxiation, probably by motor-car fumes, as the cause of death. There were no marks of violence. Almost at the same hour, police found the bodies of a man of about 50, rnd of a woman apparently 25 years of age, in an abandoned railway station near Altoona, 100 miles from carlisle. Piecing the tragedy together, the police believe that the woman and her three step-daughters travelled by bus from New York to Carlisle, where they met the girls' father. The woman killed the children, and after laying out their bodies with great care, travelled with her husband to Altoona, where she shot him and then committed suicide.