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Show GIRL DRAGGED FROM BED AND BEATEN TO DEATH Body of Child Found in Well Where it Had een Thrown by Brutal Assailant. Pocatello, Ida. Returning home early Sunday morning from a dance, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Henderson of Robin, Bannock county, near the Utah line, discovered that their 8-year-pld daughter whom they had put to bed before leaving for the evening had disappeared. Her room bore traces of a struggle. Investigating they dis-1 covered a trail of blood which led to an abandoned well, where they found her body. Every indication showed that the little lit-tle girl had been dragged from bed and beaten to death with a blunt instrument, in-strument, which crushed her skull. Following this brutal crime the murderer murder-er dragged the body from the house 300 yards to the well and there deposited de-posited it. The body was horribly mutilated. Footprints leading from the spring through a field led to the arrest of a neighbor, Alfred Henderson, not a relative. rel-ative. It developed that he had been at the same dance as the Hendersons, but had left before it was over. The authorities believe they have a clear case against Henderson. |