Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1926, Page 31

MOTHER KILLS 3 CHILDREN AND SELF; Note Says She Failed in Her Duty—House Rented for Tragedy. By the Ascociated P LOS ANGELES, October 18.—Be- cause she believed she had failed in | her duty as a mother, Mrs. Ada B.| Chamberlain, wife of-John M. Cham- | berlain, Los Angeles attorney, put to death her three children, the oldest | of whom was 9 vears old, and then ended n life | The re found dead yesterday | 1 in a house which 1 nted laxt Friday, a | few hours hefore she and her chilaren disappeared trom their home. | econstructing the tragedy, | efore putting her children mother tovk them to a | Returning to the rented placed her babies in bed. g 1 a sleeping powder and SRR e e gas. While the tiny lives were being snuffed out, the mother went inio an adjoining room and penned four notes 'uHP girls, | assed <hing: her writing, the mother calmly | walked to her death in the gas-filled | chamber., In one of her notes, addressed to | newspaper Chamber- | lain explained tha uld not let her children live in for which | he had “faiied re them." st failed to put that | A s said a girl 'ld without a defi- | e training. She | Let us have | fewer and bet. | e concluded. | peacetul u\wulun v To her husband she wrote 8 and dving holds no | tevror for me. T simply must not let ren live wnd and father was stunned and on the verge of a collapse. | riain, who was 40 years I for several months. | hamberlain home picture of a contented = family herlain disappeared from She 1ok » death of her little ind enlisted the aid of h, which ended with ne discovery, made ilton, who had rented nberlain, Ham- ppearance in the yming suspicious, PASTOR SAVES COAL. 10-Minute Slemw in London Church During Crisis. CHRIST CHURCH. London. Octo- | ber IS (). Ten-minute sermons are promised by the Rev. W: H. Gray, vicar of the Priory Church, as long as there is a coal shorfage. The shortage of fuel due to the miners’ strike. involving nearly a million workers since last May, is| causing worry among the townsfolk. ected that there will be much in this and other towns dispute. Set Alarms later now Breakfast cooks in 3to5 minutes UICK QUAKER, hot and en- ticing, is faster than plain toast. For scores of thousands it is solving the breakfast problem. 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