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Show ..,.rt,l.a,,,' uii i;i.o ins hoy to ie a 1 1 1. t ....,!..,., .io Mnr lrr. III. I'-,,., a, l,r.,r.,a II,. IMlirr I'leajMllt Spreadinc, hel'l l I j Ky., for t',r Inllioifot hi. four yeiir-old j .'ii. l llirculetM , W illi 1.1 liehl.ii;. lre. nis- family titled of K Wife. Ilnee .lauvl,lera aod ami. Uillilna, daiu'lilira iiud l,v Hie father waa henliiiy ah....p U,t TVj.ig -phe boy w aa iinal.lr lo lieep up w llh the oil, era. j The father plared loin on a alone he I aide a apriiifr, Ifllitijr III ru u wail until ' Ilia return. j The hoy. I nninr tired of aittlng atill, l.i'irau to peel llie louse hark of a tree thai orrrhtinir Ihe aprinif. I'rea-ently I'rea-ently ILe fitlher returned, and notieltig the hark on the Kroillid aakril I he boy Ml,, lia.l done It. I he4oy replied U,al j he had. . j "I would rnther have yon dead than I rniae 3-011 to ileal roy rferylliinir ' ' fm iii. " ia the reply I he futlirr la Mild 1 to hare madr. and then, ll ia elinrtfed. j lie pi. lied up a (.lone and atruek the hoy on llie heiiil. k,,.Uii,n him down. I 'I I, ,11. il is all. ,,'ed. lie kie,:e.l tile proa. tri'ile Intl. v ill Hie head until he had ' hilli.l ll, ,11. no, I In u to hla daiiirh- l-ra. thr.-aleiie l II,, -in with a like fale , if 111. )' ever told what lol l occurred. ! Aflerwin.l ho w. nl home and a,,,, I the , boy tvlule el,;,,,,, ; al p had run ', ', UKiiiual a tree and killed hiiuaelf. I j ll,'.-oiiiink uiiirno d he look Ilia eldest , italic lili'i iili'l wenl to the iiioiinltnua. ; II, a wile hired neighbor ti. bury the body of llm cliil.l. mid Iheu Weill to the home of .1 !-. I). Ileiialey. rihe told l,l,ii of the it, , 1II1 of her aim, and aiiid ahi. ausptelcil Iht iMlsbuud, who ' told In r he 1 ,ia (oliiu Into tlie inniin' : titiu tvuoila to liiiul a.iiiirela, and ud 'led thill III illlTcrcul times be lllld ' I threnteiied to lull the whole family, j TI10 Jmlire look her willi two ymuifrer .lmi;,'literH tn lirn homo and presented llie cms.- lo the iriaiul jury. : One of the little i;,, ls told Hie Jury j ! that lier fiilher luid kicked llie boy lo I l.leatli. Shortly afterward a hherllVa ' poaaa capture, I preml ilitf In the j j llioliiitiiiua.biil liia,.h-at daughter wua , I not with him. j Mprciiiliiijr'a lltisslinf daughter lilrned j up litter, hare footed and rauied, ufler I . her caenpe fi.iln her father In the , lllonnti.llia. She was imnie.ll.itely I taken before the irraud jury and teati lied tohoiv her fa I her killed the boy, I tlirenteiied her life and thai of her mother. She t. sillied that he would have hriilned them heretofore, hut for Iht. tlllcrfct'cncc of ticluhhnla. .llldiro MenslcV haa thn jail o tlo,,..y emir.lril that there ia no lont'e' any 'vj. am:cr of lyiifhliiir. Spreadiii will be I uivell a apee.ly trial. |