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Show UNHBARD-OF CRUELTY. With unheard of cruelly three men In a blacksmith shop at New York burned with a redhot Iron a wont oi seven letters on the right hip ot little Morris llrsf four yesrs old William Maateraon a young blackamllh, whq was Identified by the child aa one ot those who Inflicted the frightful Injury, has been srret-tfd He wsa taken before be-fore Magistrate Kudllch, who was greatly Incensed when the evidence ot the terrible branding was shown He ssld thst In all his experience he had) never known of a mare brutal crime. On the boy's hip sre five distinct letters, let-ters, II I, C A O clearly formed and nearly hslf an Inch high The story ot the branding as told by Morris, who Is quite a little fellow Is so Inbuir-i as to be almost Incredible He said that while passing Ihe ahop a man atopped hlra and offereil him a penny If he would rome Inside He accepted the offer There weie flvo men there, and the man who Invited him In thrust an Iron Into tho forge and healed It redhot Then according to Uie boy'a story, he wsa stripped from his waist down, and the Iron waa applied to his body Ho screamed and pleaded to be released but he ears the men only laughed at him After he had been branded he was released and ran to hla home The only doubtful part about the child's story Is that he conceateit from hla parents what had happened to him Ills mother discovered the burns when she put htm to bed He said the reason he had not told wo that he waa afraid he would be klltod. The mother notified the police after vainly trying to discover who had Injured In-jured her boy end swore out n warrant for n person unknown Agent Weltllna of the Oerry Society went with HtUo Morris to the shop, where Masterson was picked out from among eight men. The prisoner waa held for a further examination |
