Show I Should Slayer in School Row Be Tried for Murder Officials Undecided I 4 I Pr P- P r F 1 W 1 I 1 I EDWARD HEGEDUS MARIAN MARIA PHILLIPS ALFRED KRANTZ CLEVELAND Feb 20 By N. N E. E A. A AI I Service Should Service ce Should Should a year old schoolboy schoolboy school- school j boy oy w who o st stabbed bled and killed another in ina II j ja a flare of anger over over o-er a girl companion be e tried f for r murder I Has he reach reached d the age where here he should hould be forced tb pay the extreme pen- pen aty if he is tri tried fried d for br such a crime and convicted Those are th the questions officials here hero are ire trying to to decide in the extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary nary murder of ot Alfred Krantz year 16 old schoolboy Yi who ho they say was stabbed tabbed to death In a schoolroom corridor corridor corri corn dor don dispute over over a girl by by Edward Hegedus also 16 a schoolmate This Thi's was the story Krantz told PrincIpal Principal Prin Prin- cipal E. E A. A Miller of Miller of the school as he helay helay helay lay dy dying g In I was walking down the hall hail with Marian Phillips when when that other ther boy shouted a name at t me me Ue as as we passed You mustn't talk to me me like that when there Is girl a-girl around I told him Then he lie- stepped stepp d out and swung a knife at me I tried to dodge but the blade ente entered ed my roy stomach I 1 hurried in to yo your r office to tell you what had Marian Manian who Is Is' Is 15 says Hegedus made mado a remark about her and that she threatened to to tell the pr principal Ill tell him for you she he says Kranz re remarked remarked remarked re- re marked and started toward vard the office It n was then she Said that the knife was drawn I dIdn't didn't mean mean It it It sobs Hegedus We were chums and we were Just like w we had done lots of times Dr Bertha Luckey he head d of the school psychological clinic says Hegedus Hegedus' dus should not be tried for murder The boy loy needs careful and close I study to determine whether It was something temporary that caused cause his actions or whether it was something definitely wrong mentally en There is no way of telling offhand His Ills action of course was was caused by a temporary emotional unbalancing But It is not fair to put him on trial as though he were a man Dr II H. H. H Drysdale nationally known alienist sa says saysA s 's l A year old boy to stab another would have ve to be morbidly unstable or r a moron ron It is very unusual for fora for for-a a boy I of that age to lose control of his emoI emotions emo- emo I Hons to such an extent that he would I commit a deed like this Ordinarily I Ilone I lone one boy will punch another if it the I provocation is great en enough ugh But h hI he wont won't attempt a 0 killing I A d will consider ider the tho boys boy's g grand Jury l I case But count county officials have not yet et 1 decided what their recommendations to the Jury will be I |