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Show Shooting a Ten-Year-Old Boy FOR KfeFUSLNCl HiiK A DltlNK OF Water. Joel Stone, an aged citizen ot Boggs township, Clearfield county, Pa., had been sick for a long time. On the 3rd iuat.. his twelve-year old daughter was Hent to a neur family named Woollen croft to tell them he waa dying. Woolseu;roft and his wife started At once for Stone's. The girl and Johnny Woolsencroft, aged 10, were left behind. The girl wanted want-ed n drink. There was no water in the house. She agked the boy to go to a spring in a lot near by and get a pailful. The boy finally went, but told the girl that ahe could not have any of the water. While be was at the spring she took a gun that stood behind the door, and going out in the yard laid it across the stump, aiming at the boy, who approached ap-proached with water. She told him to give her a drink orshe would shoot him. He replied that she could not have any, and walked in a zig zag way to get out of range of the gun. When he was within a few feet of the stump the girl fired. The charge, which wai buckshot, entered the boy's stomach, killing him instantly. The girl's father died about tho same time. What course justice shall takn is agi tating the community where the tragedy trag-edy occurred . |