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Show ALLEGED BOY MURDERER Although. Only 11, He Is Charged With. Killing Girl. DETROIT, Aug. 19 John Goodson, an eleven-year-old school boy, is under un-der arrest, charged with the murder of Hannah McQuade, aged 7, ln Greenfield Green-field township, just outside the weBt city limits of Detroit, last night. The little McQuade girl, the daughter of Peter McQuade. a gardener, was driving driv-ing toward the McQuade home In company com-pany with her two sisters, aged 10 and 12. Young Goodson and three companions, compan-ions, boys about the same nge, who had been shooting sparrows along the road, appeared nnd attempted to climb upon the rear of the wagon. The glrlB ordered them off nnd whipped up the horse. Goodson, It Is charged, became enraged ani shot at the girls with the flobert rifle he was carrying. The bullet struck the little girl ln the temple, killing her almost Instantly. Goodson's companions, who arc also In custody, declare that the bullet which struck the girl was aimed at a sparrow oh a nearby telegraph pole. |