Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-10-26
PARENTS AWFUL CRIMES.

near MdIlOu, luu'J IOoSN''y
leaving their bodies in fence corner.
While mob was forming TO capture and
lynch him, Mcclure drove on run to
Marion and gave himself up. He has
been secreted by the authorities, who
fear attempted violence. Mcclure lived
near Frankton, and separated from
his wife year ago, she refusing to live
with him and returning with her child
rem to her fathers home. At noon yes
terday Mcclure hired rig at Elwood
and drove to the Kilgore farm, the ow-
ner being Mrs. McClure's f,ther He
found the children playing in the front
ward and induced them with candy to
take a ride with him. He drove a mile
I'D the road, carried the children TO a
fence corner, and shot themwith a revol-
yer. The older one was found dead
few minutes later, and the younger was
dying, piece of the candy being still
in his mouth. Mcclure fled and was
pursued by crowd of young farm
ers bent on yengence. The alarm
was given and from ali surround
ing towns armed pursuers start
ed. Mcclure succeeded in reaching
the jail in safety. To the Jail turnkey
Mcclure admitted the murder Of his
two children, and he said he had killed
them because his wife had left him and
refused to live with him. He said ::
"When she refused to see me | decided
to be revenged, and drove down the
road to little clump Of trees. My two
children were asleep in the buggy.
When l stopped, the jolt awoke my
little boy, Dee. He looked up to me
and said: Papa, what are you going to
doF put my hand over his eyes and
took my gun from my pocket and shot
him in the forehead, killing him in
stantIy. The shot awoke little Homer,
and took him by the shoulder and fired
a shot into his head. They both fell to
the bottom of the buggy. | drove the
horse to the side of the road and lifted
both bodies out and placed them on the
grass. Then drove directly to Marion to
the Jail, and am here togive myself up"
While temporarily deranged, Mrs
Louis Iverson, wife of a Salinas Cal.
machinist, murdered three of her chill
dren Saturday at Pacific Grove, at the
dictation, she said later, of supreme
power. She first strangled her eldest
daughter, Louisa, aged twelve years.
She then attempted the life of her eldest
son, aged eleven, but the boy broke
away from her and took train for his
home in Salinas. She then strangled
her son Harold, aged six, and securing
an axe struck him blow OH the head.
Later in the evening she killed her
seven-ilonths old baby by strangling
The murder of her children was related
by Mrs. Iversou to Sheriff Nesbitt yes
terday. She added that during the
night she had walked about the house,
lying down for a short time on the floor
She said she realized now that she had
done wrong, but believed she was doing
right at the time she committed the
deed. She persisted, however, in stating
that the children were not dead.
The boy who escaped went to his
home in Salinas and reported to
his father that the eldest girl was i'll
and had been lying on the bed,
but said nothing of his mothers attack
on him. The father telephoned 10 a Pa
cific Grove physician, asking him to call
at the house and see the child. The doc
tor did so and was met at the door by
Mrs. Iverson, who said there was no one
sick in the house and that some mistake
had been made. Early yesterday morn
ing Mr.. Iverson drove to Pacific Grove.
He knocked at the front door Of the cot
tage where his wife and family had been
living, and was told to go around to the
back door. He did so, and, entering the
house, was about to kiss his wife, when
she said: "Don't touch me. Don't put
YOUR hands on me. Go and look at your
children" With that he opened the
door of an adjoining room where lay th'
bodies of the three children, the boy or
one bed and the two girls on the other.
The house wss In disorder and indications
were plentiful that the two older children
had struggled hard against their death
Mrs Iverson had been i'll for some months
and had shown signs of mental derange
ment, her mania being of religious ma
ture.
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