Show WAS IT A MURDER fURD EHI A poor 1 or little newsboy was shot I 1 dell ili in tile streets ot of philadelphia last Sunt sunday liy according to the despatch lie he had picked up till if bundle of paper in ili front of it a cigar store hut but seeing a policeman watching hini him drapl dropped aed tile bundle mid anil start starl td KI to 10 run tile officer naked 1 a I private wat watchman chimin to try anti and catch the t lie boy bov a and not the I 1 latter n ater gave chalm cains e ile ho joined I 1 ay by iy two po lio liemen lut lilt tile brightened right ened lad though panting for breath was paining gaining oil nn hii pursuers when tile watchman d drew rew liis his revo hur er and ired fired twice tho the I 1 loy oy fell through ind and 1 lied at the hospital veiling I 1 lie ile stated that lie was not ant stealing vew 0 tile the papers but had picked up tit thy tho huddle bundle to read an all article winch eljia nt at meted his attention ho he was waa a I 1 colo colored red hoy boy 0 onla n I 1 is i il 0 years ol 01 old 1 a at t d unusually dinall for ills his age tile the wat watchman chinin is now lit in jail it must bo be admitted that tile the wee wea fel fek aws defence is a pretty lame auto one OIK hut but lit at most of it a few I 1 I 1 newspapers pipers is not ft a crime crime punishable if b a with death mid and it certainly would not justify thu use of a ri revolver even had tile the culprit been a much more hardened and danger 11 oua om criminal than this tin s poor little I 1 negro coald possibly have hava been if tile the fact shall pr anve ve to ile he as report t td d wu wo alope tile jury will lia hang I 1 9 ills watchman watch man without the 1 geest I 1 compunction as a warning to other oilier I 1 olli cial ruffians rud ruf ians flans |