The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-22
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Bellevue.
 New York, Feb. 2l,-Mrs Ethel Kelso, who yesterday afternoon shot and kill ed her two children, Ethel, four and a half years old, and Radford, two and half years old, and then cut her own wrist in an effort to kill herself, was re- ported to be recovering at Bellevue hos pital this morning.
 Mrs. Kelso, is the wife of George Rad ford kelso, superintendent of the Mar tin E. Brown Printing company. The tragedy occurred about o'clock yester- day afternoon at the house, 14S West Ninety-hfth street. MT, Kelso went home early, and found his wife seated in a chair in the library in dazed condi- tion, watching the blood flow from q gash in her wrist.
 On @ sofa in the same room was the child Ethel, dead, with bullet in her head and another in her left breast. In a bedroom beyond was the boy, ly- ing on the bed with a bullet hole behind the ear,i dying. He died a little later.
 Mrs. Kelso had shot her children with 8 revolver of her husbands, and she had evidently purchased the cartridges earlier in the afternoon, as she had been out
 Dr. J. F. Moore of 156 West Ninety fourth street was summoned. After he had seen that nothing could be done for the children, he bound up Mrs. Kel- sos wound, and she was taken to Belle vue hospital.
 When asked why she killed the children Mrs. Kelso did not seem to understand the enormity of her act. But then she did ask if they died easily"
 Only one other person was in the house at the time of the tragedy Amy Barry, the cook. She had not heard the shots.
 At 14S West Ninety-fifth street, the home of the 4[elsos, there is nothing to be seen from without to tell of the trag- edy except the drawn curtains and the drawn oak door, There is no crepe on the door knob, but every passer-by looks curiously at the house and many stop to gaze a moment before going on
 A policeman from the West One Hun dredth street station stands a few doors away, so as not to attract too much at tention, but he is on the alert to pre- vent any annoyance to those in the house from the curious. None of the Kelso family are at the house. A member of the firm, with which the husband and father was connected, is in charge, and in answer to all questions says: 'We can say nothing at pres ent."
 Undertaken w. J. Hart of 5o9 Madi- son avenue was present during the visit of Coroner TToeber last night, and, as soon as the coroner had gone, began preparing the bodies of the children for burial They were taken from the blood stained apartments on the second floor, where they had gone to sleep happily, trusting in their mothers protection, only to be killed by her hand, and now lie side by side in the back parlor To- morrow they will be placed in their tiny white coffins and on Sunday afternoon will be taken away for burial. Where the children will be buried is not known, and will not be determined until their father can be consulted. The representatives of the family at the house said this morning that MT. Kelso is suffering terribly from the shock he has received. and some of his friends feared that he might become insane. | Insanity, the police and coroner say, caused Mrs. Kelso to commit the awful deed, and this is borne out by the friend | who says that Mir Kelso for some time had fears for his wife. What those 1 fears were he will not say.
 | For six months Mrs. Kelso had been l ill. She had suffered severe shocl, due to her delicate condition at that | time, and that together with illness and surgical operations which became necessary it is believed unhinged fer reason. It is believed now that Mrs Kelso has been insane for nearly that 1 length of time, and that a temporary | illness of a very recent date caused her to plot and carry out the death of her two children as she said in her frenzy to save them from disgrace of knowine that their mother had defied God and killed herself.
 Mrs. Kelso is held a Bellevue hospital as a prisoner, and is under the care of | Dr. G. w. Ely. He did not find it neces- sary to visit his patient until 9:SC o'clock this morning. She was in such an improved condition late last night that the physician concluded to leave | her in charge of the nurse.
 | Dr. Ely said this morning: Mrs Kel- so will undoubtedly recover. Besides cutting herself she had taken a dose of | hemlock poison. The poison has all been abstracted and the cut has been successfully bound up. I have nothing to say as to her mental condition. l will leave that for the experts In speaking to me she expressed herself l in 8 very rational manner. At times she becomes very much excited and again talks very calmly about what she has done"
 G. Radford Kelso, the husband of the l woman, remained about the prisor ward all night, and was there until 1t o'clock this morning. He was in com pany with his attorney, E. J. Ledwich
 The nurse in attendance said that during the night Mrs. Kelso slept but very little. Two or three times she be. came quite excited, and attempted tc l leave her bed.
 When taken to the hospital last night Mrs. Kelso said:
 T am subject to these attacks and have always said I would go crazy. | felt this attack coming on me about {