The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-08
FIVE FOUND DEAD
F1other Kills Herself and Also
Her Four Children.

All the Crevices of Doors and Windows
Were Careful Nv stopped Up-Then Gas
Was Turned on and Did Its Work.
New York, Oct. IA woman and her
1our children We're found dead by as
FhyXiation in the West Shore hotel Forty
t@ccnd street and Eleventh avenue, this
morning. The woman had evidently
Killed her children and committed sui
che. They were registered as Mrs. Car
cline Razinius and four children, West
FONT. They arrived from train which
came from West Point last night at S:45
Mrs. Razinius appeared to be about 40
years old. The children were two boys,
one about Is, and the other about Z, and
two girls, about 10 and years old.
The family retired about 9 o'clock last
night and nothing was heard from them
TIL this morning when a chambermaid
smelled gas in the hallway. An investiga.
ton disclosed the tragic death Of the five.
Inc clerk who answered the call of the
servant and forced the door of the room
was compelled by the flood of gas that
poured through the door to run for his
life.
The windows were opened a few min
utes later and the escaping gas shut off
in the pipes. There were two connecting
rooms used by the Razinius family. On
the bed in on lay the WcTan with the
youngest chi. ,.asped tigkty in her
arms. Both wrr- dead. In the CHER the
bed held the corpses of thu ee other chill
dren. The bodies were in nighIclothes.
The expression on the face Of the young
est child was agJC3z@u, as though she
had attempted % scream out, but had
been held by the mother.
A call was sent for the Roosevelt hos
pital ambulance, Immediately after the
bursting open of the apartments, and
the physician who responded worked
over the bodies for two hours, before Civ
ing up to the conclusion that all were
beyond help
1t is supposed the woman waited until
the older children were asleep before
beginning preparations for the terrible
work. The cracks of the windows were
found closed up tightly by being file d in
with clothing. The top and bottoms of
the doors had been similarly death with |
Wet paper was stuffed in the keyhoes |
and the gascOcks were wide open. The
work of stuffing all holes in the rooms |
that would allow the gas to escape must |
have consumed more than an hour.
By the sides of the beds were found |
the two trunks. Their contents had been |
scattered about Some Of the clothing
had been torn up for the stuffing up of
the cracks.
When the police were notified of the
tragedy they began an investigation to
determine the identity of the dead people.
There was no mark of any kind on the
clothing nor on the trunks 1t was learned
that the woman had reached this city at
about S:45 o'clock last night on a train
which had come through West Point.
The woman was dressed in black at that
time. There were three rings on her
hand, a wedding ring and two others
diamonds. The other effects
consisted of a pocketbook containing
small amount of change and the clothing
in the small trunks
There was every indication that the
party had left home hurriedly. No care
had been exercised in the packing of the
trunks. The clothing was crumpled and
for a family Of five for more
than a day or two. The bodies were re-
moved to the West Forty-seventh street
police station.