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VET CUTS WIFE,, SLAVS CHILDRENMayfield, Ky. — Still won ring his blood-stained blue shirt, W. J. Mo iso, lt;irvyoar-i]ij World War. veteran, told questioning fallow prto* ti|]i*io tin lay he slushed his wife and slew their four children with abutcher h11ii't? ut thuir home near Columbus, Ky., Tuesday night.*'I did it he tried, Imi refused .to amplify the remark.Sheriff 11. A, flicks, who sent Morse Lo tin* jail in thlis adjoining coun Ly, hr cause, he said, the mull's neighbors were talking excitedly, quoted Morse as saying after surrendering without resistance;“I don't know why I did it.; just crazy, I guess,’1Mrs. Morse, 42, taken lo the home of lier father for treatment of five knife gashes in'her hack, said Morse went berserk when she made tine of her frequent protests of his treatment of the cllildren.
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Middlesboro Daily News

Middlesboro, Kentucky, US

Thu, Aug 05, 1937

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