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Show CORONER PROBES DEATH OF SCHOOL BOY 1 PUEBLO PUEBLO, Colo., March 18. Six men duly sworn by Dr. Luke McLean, coroner, will beg-in an investigation into the school boy feud which js said to have resulted Monday in the death of Ted "Poverty" Kuy-kendall. Kuy-kendall. 8 years old. Ted was nicknamed "Poverty" "Pover-ty" because his mother is poor and he did not .wear as nice clothes as the other boys. In spite of his humble surrounding's, sur-rounding's, however, Ted led all the other boys in his lessons at school. He was the star of the class and because of this, the boy said in a dying statement, he was hated the more by the other boys. On March 4, the resentment of the well dressed youths took form when they waylaid bim on his way home from school, knocked him down and kicked him into unconsciousness, his statcmenL.saich '' He died Monday. Mon-day. The names of the other boys were revealed in the statement, made to Mi's. Mattie .Hart, his nurse, and Eev. F. W. Beach, pastor of the Broadway Christian Chris-tian church. The names are withheld until after the inquest. |