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Show OFFICER KILLED BY BOY. Thirtoen-Ycnr-Old Youth Shoot a Deputy Sheriff. Chicago, Dec. 23. Thoms (Jrosby, the thirteen-year-old son of Mrs. Margaret Mar-garet Crosby, a wealthy widow living in Edgewator, a suburb of Chicago, shot and instantly killed Deputy Sheriff: Prank Nye while Nye was attempting at-tempting to serve a writ of restitution. The writ was based on a mortgage for (520,000 which had been foreclosed on the Crosby homestead. The officer was warned by the boy not to attempt to enter the house, bul disregarded the threat, and attempted to tear out a window. The boy's mother and grandmother were in an upper room at the time. The boy said he had been instructed to shoot any one who attempted to enter the house. |