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Show BOY SHOOTS BROTHER AND DORIES 80DI IN PIG PEN Twelve-Year-Old California Lad Confesses Con-fesses to Horrible Crime, His Victim Probably Being Buried Alive. Modesto. Cal. Twelve-year-old Cecil Ce-cil Hopkins, self-confessed slayer of his 6-year-old brother Theodore, made a statement to the coroner on Friday that strengthens that official's belief that the victim was buried alive in the pig pen where his body-was body-was found Thursday. According to his story, he killed little Theodore whale the parents were absent from home. Tre two were eating luncheon in the house and quarreled over the food. He first drove his brother from the house, Cecil Ce-cil said, then followed, and in a burst of anger seized a shotgun and fired at the fugitive. Fearing the consequences or his deed when bis parents should return, he laid the form of his baby brother in the shadow of a fence while he made an excavation in the sand at the pig pen. While the grave was being dug, Cecil Ce-cil said, Theodore moaned and once stretched his arms. Upon the return of his father and mother, Cecil professed ignorance of the whereabouts of Theodore, and assisted as-sisted in the search until the body was uncovered. The cramped position of the arms and the fact that the victim's mouth was filled with sand add to the theory that the child was buried alive. |