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Show LITTLE SISTER TELLS OF MURDER CII1CO, CaL, June 28. More evidence evi-dence concerning the brutality that caused the death yesterday of Helen Rumball, 13 years oldj came- to the police today from the lips of a young, or sister of tho dead girl. This child told the officers that while Helen was in the stifllug attic where her lifeless 'body was found, her cries of pain were hoard by the sister, who pleaded with her stepmother, Mrs. Emma Rumball, to be allowed to go and comfort tho sufferer. These pleas, according to the child, were rebuffed and the woman wo-man made her Ko to bed. In the late hours of the night, Mrs Rumball awakened the girl and her brother and told them that Helen was dead Today Sheriff Webb discovered where thq rope with which it is believed Helen was choked to death was fastened fast-ened to the studding in the attic. Marks on the throat of the body indicate indi-cate that the rope was wrappod about3 the neck. Mrs. Rumball said todav that, while Helen was bound in the attic, her step-uncle, Arthur Lewis taunted her until she bocarae fronzled in her, efforts to free herself. 'j |