| Show A LITTLE GIRL MURDERED BY A boy A correspondent of the chicago evening E ve journal writ writing ng froni from lyons iowa july says one of tile the most mosi atrocious acts we ever heard I 1 of being perpetrated b by y one so young transpired near tins this city on oil saturday last from the account furnished furnish dd us by one of the coroners jury we alean gean th the e following facts 1 upon an island near EJ elk lic river township there lives 1 a I family named roberts RoL their son a lad of only fourteen ye years ars of age evinces the hardihood of a most moat hardened wretch on oll saturday hist lie he invited a couple of little girls to cross the slough with him for the purpose of seeing him drown a cat arid and as lie he says ll 11 have 0 O some fun 11 the deceased a little girl only nine dine years old with her companion lo 10 readily acceded ceded and crossed with ili him tn lie he had no cat and without making ica any ally the deception that W we 1 1 can ledin invited them to come up to the house lie ite preceded them and they followed when lie he arrived at the lionie they were a rod or two behind him ue he tood stood s still and told them not liot to come any nearer ticy childlike ff atura appo 1 aed i pl i u fua 41 naw yfem them 11 ilot to come any nearer or he h e rn would shoot them 11 they did not li haft a lle and lie he deliberately deliberate y took down hi hig fathers rifle which had been loaded io f shoot his neigh neighbors 0 borg dogs with they trespass upon their grounds ho took deliberate aim and fired alie aall taking effect in the alie abdomen and aws pax in i ing n through lodged in the opposite hip bip tife the little girl lin jore d i A f gealt ailt agony and died this manday man day morn ing she is a daughter of peterson Peter sony an honest fish fisherman cirman of this city witnesses have boeri been summoned and the affair will be investigated tomorrow to morrows morrow and no doubt young roberts will be apprehended these are s substantially L i ally the facts as testified to before tile the coroners inquest we are told that he had threatened to shoot another girl in the neighborhood such early depravity is surely frightful |
