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Show Love-Plagued Lad, 12, Seeks Ash Can Death CHICAGO, Dec. 26. Benny Soko-lons'ii. Soko-lons'ii. 12 years old. today was at a hospital thoroughly thawed ; out after having been cramped into an a-sh can in freezing weather for a day and a night. Benny was the base of an infantile example of the age-old triangla and the other two sides were formed by Annie Earzyk, 13, and Florence Moeller, 11. As a ; result, he had, he said, crawled into the ash can, seeking death. Tightly clasped in his little fist when the police dragged him from his refuge Benny had a letter from ! his "loving wife, Annie," a strange i grouping of childish devotion to a ! play-mate, mature abnegation and j sorrow which usually accompanies i triangles. ''I know you love Florence and I know you don't love me any more," read the letter. "But, oh, if you only knew how I love you! Don't tell Florence how much I love you or she will be mad. If you only knew how much she loves you! Oh, I hate her! "But if you love her better than j me, you can have her. I love you, I dear! I love you, dear!" |