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Show AWFUL CRIME OF YOUTH. Stunt Boy With Brick and Then Buries Him Alive. Chlcngo. Robert Gordon, need 16, has confosscd that he struck Joseph Reed, 8 years old, with a brick, stunning stun-ning him, nnd then burled him alive beneath tho sldowalk In front of his father's homo, 2878 Archor avenue. Tho boy'a body was found whoro Gor-pton Gor-pton said he (yd burled It After an investigation in-vestigation by tho police Gordon was taken Into custody. Whon takon to tho station and questioned by tho police, po-lice, Gordon broke down and confessed that ho enticed tho boy to tho base-rnont base-rnont of tho Reed homo, mlstreateo him, nnd when ho nttomptcd to escapo stmck him on tho head with a brick. Ho then burled him nllvo. Flvo othor boys, ranging In ngo from 15 to 20 years old, who had bcon drinking with Gordon ftt the rear of tho Rood homo boforo tho murder becamo known, woro taken Into custody. The Reod nnd Gordon families llvo nenr one another an-other and huvo been friends for years. |