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Show Mnlieious Outrage. Out: ul tii ! mcnl uureaoniiijia and co!d-bl. cJcd ouir-iuts was pcru.ir.Ucd I .mi evening on r'.io person of George L. Adkin?, a bjy 11 years old. He and his brother, about 13 years o'.d. had been to St. Mark's school in the afternoon, and were loitering home-ward home-ward in the direction of the Nineteenth Nine-teenth ward. Just before dusk they had reached the neighborhood of Arsenal block and had stopped to take a drink frjm iheditcb, a little piece down the hill aud aImot eat of the block. Before stooping to get a drinir thev t.r.tirpd a man aiUiue beside fho fence, who got up and approached the lade, and by the time they had finished drinking he arrived at the spot wuere they were standing. He had Iwo largo pistols in hia hands and without saying a word stepped up lo the younger of the beys, 6ciz;d him and sbuved one of the pistols into hia right hand pants pocket aayiDg: "If you want this, take it." Almo&t before the boy could think what waa being done the man pulled tho trigger and the ball from ttie pinto! passed through tho panta of the right Itg without inflicting any injury, but entered ihe left thigh on the inside, pasting down and coming ut on the outeraide of the calf of the , leg. The boy began crying with pain aud fear and Baid: "I'm killed! I'm killed!" The man who perpetrated the outrage then Baid: "OhI that did'nt kill you; I'll blow out your brains if you don't quit crying." Turning to the older boy he told him that if he made any ooi38 he would kill him, too. He then -ran ofJ over the hill, in tho direction of City creok, while the boy waa carried home. It is not thought that the wound will provo fatal, though it iavery painful. The boy describee the man as baing dressed in blue overalls, with a black slouched hat. His face waa covered with short wbiskora. The lads eay that they neither did a-uy thing nor said anything tc provoke the attack. Dr. Benedict attended the wounded boy and made him corn for table. From tho description given the police, they at once suspected that Porcher, the crazy fellow who has committed a number of iusane ects of late, was the guilty party. He had rlurned from Ogden and waa Been on the streets yesterday in an intoxicated intox-icated condition, and waa arrested about 8 o'clock last night. No weapons of any kind were found on hia person, but ho wore a black oioMchflrl-hat. Though he did not have on overall bis panta woro so loose that they nrt6wt readily bo mia-taken mia-taken for them. ThV piico beliove they have got the guilly party., ancj the circumstances are such that u would seem utterly impossible lor any but an insane being to perpetrate such an outrage. |
