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Show I VICIOUS YOUNGSTER ATTEMPTS A MURDER Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS, Feb. 7. At Rennea a boy of S nnmcd Francois I.enormaml has been tried for the attempted murder of a schoolfellow. Lcnormand bad been punished pun-ished at school for some trifling fault, itnd believing that a child named Joachim Koronas bad "told on" him, lie lay In wait for the boy In a lane, knocked him down, struck him on the bead with a Knife, and kicked him' fiercely. The victim vic-tim lay for a Ions time between life and death, and the doctors fear thnt his reason has been hopelessly affected. The child criminal Htated in hla defense that he was drunk at the momont of the iiltnc. Ills statement was proven to be true. The court of Moutfort had decided that he should bo confined to a reformatory, re-formatory, but the hlphcr tribunal of Ftcnnes has quashed the verdict, and sent 111m back to his parents. |