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Show .4 TOUXG FIEXirS CRIME. lie Murdered a Weak-Minded Girl Whom lie U:vl Betrayed. Milwaukee, Oct. 10. A horrible story of youthful depravity came to light when Albert Al-bert Kohi:, a 16-ycar old boy in the employ of a farmer named Kodatz, residing near here, confessed to lie murder of his employer's em-ployer's 15-vcur old daughter Annie. He tad been intimate with the girl, who was weak-DiiU'lcil, aad she was about to become n in 'it Iter. Not relishing this turn of affairs, li-s Killed her October 7'.b. aud secreted the bv-dy. On the day of the murder he first put into th? oup which the family was to have for dinner a large quantity of paris green. Mr. Kodatj ate the soup first and, being taken violently ill, at ("live prevented the others from partaking par-taking of it. There was so much of the poison that it acted as an emetic, and Kodat.1 soon got well. That afternoon Annie An-nie disappeared and when the officers came to investigate the poisoning she could not be found. 'I hey came to the conclusion that she had placed the poison in the soup and then fled. All efforts to find her proved unavailing. un-availing. Last "night Farmer Kodatz, investigating the cause of a terrible stench iu the barn, found the unfortunate girl's body under the -i-i hie floor, covered w ith manure. The boy Kohis was at once apprehended and confessed confes-sed that after the ' failure of the poisoning scfceine he went out to repair a hole in the barn floor. Annie went with him and w hile fhe w as holding a board for tiru to saw he crushed her skull with a hammer and placed the body ia the hole. He then covered it Kith minure aud nailed down the floor. He iocs not appear to realize the enormity of Lis crime. . i. . . |