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Show DYING BOY HIDDEN. Afraid to Allow His Playmates to Take Him' Home. MOUNT TLEASANT, Mich., Oct 21. After Arthur BurwaKh, 8 years old, had bc-on fatally shol, he Insisted that his playmates. John Burns and Clydo Harvey, Har-vey, hide him ln the woods, fearing to bo carried home. "Three times John Burns went to the placo where thc boy was hidden to see If he was dead. John Burns, who Is 10 years old, Is In Jail here. He declared today that tho shoolliu; was an accident. Burns said that Burwash was foollnc with his (Bums's) cun when it was accidentally dlschiirKed, tho chnrgcentorlng tho boy's thigh ami nearly severing the leg. "Arthur ivouldn t let us carry him home.'' Burns said, "and he wouldn't let us brim? anybody to see Ho was afraid. "So Clyde and mo carried him bohlnd a trco In tho woods. Ho fainted, but wo thought he was dead. We run away. "I went back to see him alone, and ho was alive, but awful weak. Ho didn't want me to tell anybody. "Twice more I went back to seo him. and he wasn't dead yet.' Burnfl kept the secret, but Clyde Har-vev, Har-vev, a vounger Dov, finally broke down and told some of the searchers tliat Arthur Ar-thur Bnrwanh was shot and that Burns knew whero he was. It wan not until Burns discovered that Harvey had told of the affair that ho led a searching party par-ty to the Injured boy's hiding place. Tho llttlo follow lived only on hour after being be-ing found. |