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Show FATAL END OF A SPREE. Frederick Betzcl Shoots a Little Girl and Commits Suicide Little Katie Murphy, of Kew vn ... I J had an experience the other day that she will remember I as long as she lives. Her home is in big tenement house on East Forty-eighth street." Another inmate ot the place wag Frederick Freder-ick Betzel, once a soldier in the Ger-maa Ger-maa army. He was a big, handsome hand-some looking fellow fel-low of 45, and had a reputation for sobriety and intelligence. intel-ligence. But one night begotdrunk and the next KATIE MUBPHT. JSJ!, Y i ? " ished a revolver while walking through the hail. The weapon was discharged and the bullet entered one of Katie's feet. The child cried "You've shot me," and called for help. Betzel looked at her with a confused con-fused stare for a few seconds, and then turning the revolver on himself sent a couple ot balls through his brain. He died , almost instantly. The Murphy girl is not ! seriously injured. |