Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-01
A MOTHERS CRIMES.


n MVlHEhO URlMES.
HORHID DEED OF A CRAZY WOMAN.
The Wife of Prominent New York Pnysl-
clan BlindfOlds Her Babes ana
Blows Out Their Brains.
Mrs. Seguin, aged o6 years, the wife OF
DR.. Edward G. Seguin, noted specialist
on diseases of the brain. shot and killed
her three young children aud then killed
New York. There is no other cause known
for the terrible act than insanity in the
mother. The children were Edward d..
aged 6 years John Van Duyan. aged )
years, and Jeanette, aged years. They
were all shot through the head and killed.
The mothers death was rs sudden and
probably as painless as theirs.
The frightful feature of the tragedy is
the manner Of the murder. Mrs. Seguin
took the children to an empty spare room,
at the top Of the five-story house, in the
absence of her husband and when the
servants were engaged in the basement,
| and locked herself in with them. Tho
servants believed they had gone out for a
walk. What happened in the room will
! never be known, but when DR.. AmidOn,
Mrs. Seguin's brother, called at ) o'clock,
| and with his suspicious aroused at the
long absence Of the family made q search
| of the house, mother and children were
found dead, all shot through the head
The children hands were tied behind
their backs with whipcOrd they were
blindfOlded with handkerchiefs and from
ali appearances they must have been shot
| while playing blindmen's buff " with
their destroyer. They had been dead for
at least an hour and a half and were quite
cold. Three pistols were found in the
room, all Of large callibre, and all had
been used.
1t is in evidence that Ms. SeSuin had
been despondent from physical causes for
some time, but she had shown no symp-
toms of insanity. She was 4 small slim
| woman of nervous temperament Her
domestic life was very happy, and there
was no family trouble. DR.. Seguin re-
turned home about1 O'Clock. and upon
hearing the dreadful news was utterly
Frustrated. lie is in state Of great men,
tai distress and under the care Of physi-
clan. His wife was the daughter of q
Massachusetts, farmer. The couple moved
in the best society. Tho family occupied
| a five-stOry brown stone house, elegantly
furnished.
The three servants in the house noticed
during the day that Mrs. Seguin was
moody. She had for several weeks been
in a condition which her brother, DIR.
Ami(;On, termed the blues
Fatal Accident on a Lake steamer.
During the trip Of the steamship
Oceanica to Buffalo from Chicago, Captain
Dickson reports that his vessel fell into
the trough of a high sea, and lurching so
heavily her boilers broke from their fast
enings and slipped about six inches to
port. This displaced the steam connection
and the steam and water rushed into the
fire hold. \ fireman and q deck hand
named John Christopher were in tho hold
at the time, Tho fireman escaped unin-
jarcd, but Christopher lost his life in the
hot water below. Nearly all the water
from the boiler poured into tho hold, and
it required over an hours work to bail it
out.
Condition Of s;x t;OvOra"r Hendricks,
Ex- Ex-Governor Hendricks condition con-
tinucs critical. TIC physicians still express
the hope, iii view of the patients temper
atc life, that the disease may prove self
limiting, but are apprehensive of results.
There arc grave fears that py:rmic poison
ing has set in, and every effort TO prevent
it's spread TO the entire system is being
made. 4 consultation of the surgeons
has resulted in the decision that immediate
amputation is not necessary, but unless
tho diseased parts slough Off the knife
must be used. One of the attending ply
sicans say there is not one chance in 4
hundred for the patients recovery.
Suicide and Murder In Consequence.
Isadorc Cassat, who was recently dis.
charged by Master Mechanic Richardson,
of tho st. Louis & Iron Mountain railroad,
committed suicide ut Little Rock. Ark.
His son, to revenge his death, called at
Richardson's office and in tho lattcr's alb
sence shot mortally George F. Barnes,
Richardson's clerk. At the inquest Mrs.
Cassatt testified that she heard her hus-
band and son make an agreement some
time ago that the former was to commit
suicide and the latter was to kill Richard
son.
Trying to Brown Hcr Child.
A colored woman at Ivy Depot, Albc-
marie county, Va, attempted to drown
her ? year old boy. She was caught in the
act. A cloth was tied over the boys face
and a rope tied tightly around his throat,
and she was hauling him up and down the
stream. 1t is thought the boy will die.
The mother has been put in Jail.