The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
INDUSTRIOUS WORK.
Horrible Performance of a NeW
York Lddy White SuppOs-
ediy Insane.
She Murders Har Three Children and
Commits Suicide.

The wife of DR. T. G. Seguin, of New York,
a specialist In diseases of the brain, muir
dered her three children and killed herself
while, as is supposed, she was temporarily
insane Dispatches from New York give the
following particulars of the horror:
The CHI ldran were Edward d, aged
Jeaane tie years. They were all shot
through the head and ms antly killed The
mothers death was as sudden IA theirs The
irigatful feature of the tragedy is the man
ner of the murder Mr.. beguin took the
children t. an empty spare room at
ab enoe O. her husband, aud while
the servants were engaged in the basement,
and locked herself in with them. The
servants believed they had gone Out for
walk. What happened in the room will
never be known, but when DR.. A,nidon,
Mrs Seguin's brother, called, at O'Clock,
and, with his suspicious aroused by the long
absence OF the family, made a search OF tie
mousse the mother and children were found
dead, all shot through the head.
The children's hands We're tied behind
their backs with whpoord They were
blindfolded with handkerchiefs and, from
all Appearances, they must have been shot
while playing ut blindman's buff with their
execWioner. They had been dead for at
least an hour and a half, and were quite cold
when discovered.
Three pistols were found in the room. all
of heavy caliber, and all had been IL, ed. Mrs.
Seguin had been respondent from physical
causes for some time, but she has SHOWN no
evidence of insanity. She was a small, slim
woman OF nervous temperament. Her do
nestle life was very happy, and there was no
family trouole.
insanity His father was equally SO. His
wife was the daughter of a Massachusetts,
farmer The couple moved in the best soci-
ETY.. The family lived in five-story brown
stone front English basement house, ele-
gantly furnished The room in which the
tragedy took pace is on the fifth floor, and
il scarcely ever used by the family The
three servants in the house noticed during the
day that Mrs. Seguin was in the moody CON
diton she had been in Tor several weS ks, and
which her brother Dr.. Amidon, termed the
blues" About IL O'clock he called upon her
and she said she did not feel well, and had
written TO DR.. Henry iapor who had been
invited TO dine with the FAMILY, TO defer his
v sit This note she asked her brother to
send He took it, jckinGiy, and told her
they would all enjoy themselves. DR.. Ami
doa called on hi sCer at 3 o'clock, and was
told she had gone out ior a walk He
returned at ; O'clock but Mrs. Sc Iuin had
not vet returned. The hall-bov incident
ally M ntiOned that the door of the
spare room was locked and the key
pone A sudden p!clOn sc zed t1e doctor
tina Mrs SeguIn had gone Ia the Central
Park and drowned herself and tac oh ldr H.
H cou d not explain why he thought this
He imm ediately went up st IRIS and bur 3
the door of the room open. Tae horr he
sight me- his eyes. Almost in t. middle OF
the floor lay the dead ocdy OF the eldest boy &,
Edward, n pool o: blood. Partly n a clos
ct lay MRS. ~ gum, grasp!ng IN ler RI Int
hand a b z p arr handle evolver
Inside the closet lay the boy John and the
girl Jeanette. There could be no doubt the
mother had taken the children into the room
on the rretense OF playing biindman's buff.
she had lei the two young st into the closet,
and locked them ia while she murdered the
oldest boy The pStol with which he was
shot was "a targeC-practice weapon, with a
barrel eleven inches long 1t lay beside him,
and the bullet lay on tie floor II had
passed through his head The maniac moth
er bhen proceeded to the closet, and with a
heavy thirty two caliber revolver, with
which she atterward blew out her own
brains shot the other two children
DR. Amidon cut the strings that bound the
children's hands and laid them on the bed
The police and Coroner were notified at
once. Nothing was found in the room 10 ex-
plain tIe motive for the T. rrible crime.
The maniac had held tie weapon close to
her victims heads, for the handkerchiefs
on their faces had been burned. The face
of the little girl wore a look of innocent
SURF rise that cut more deeply than any
other feature of the dreadful deed On the
table lay u box of cartridges and third
pistol
Sudden insanity is the on Y motive known
for the deed. Mrs Seguin was neatly dresS ed.
The CHI. dren We re Lovely little thing, and
all the tami y she had.