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Show "IIITTEN LI" isPLMOF em Only Thirteen Years Old, and Is Accused of Killing Godfather God-father With Ax. PITTSBURG. Oct. 3. Catherine Bottl. a pretty 13-year-old ILUlun girl, wan placed on trial In the criminal court today, to-day, charged with tin: wilful murder of lioi Kodfuther. She sat. alone and with apparent composuro listened to the chargo that 011 August 11 she Induced Pusqimlo Volpe, her godfather, to po Into the cellar of her home In AYilimsrdlng. asked him to pick up a sack of potatoes for her nnd while lie was stooping to' do her bidding, struck him on tho bond with an ax and then ran a hot nokcr through Ills body. Volpe. who had been a boarder board-er at the Bottl home since the girl's In-fancv, In-fancv, was '" yearn old nnd married Tins girl's defense will bo based on the unwritten law. |