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Show GIRL SHOT TO DEATH BY CHUM, I POUCE THINK j NEW YORK. Dec. 28. Brooklv n 'keenest detectives today looked for a solution of the shooting of Theresa j McCarthy, ten-year-old school girl. In her home Tuesday, in the slightly upward up-ward course of the .22 calibre bullet I that pierced her heart, disclosed by the autopsy and the theory that another an-other child of similar age was responsible re-sponsible for the tragedy. The deduction was that the bullet's course would have been downward, irather than upward, hail an older and taller person flr.-.J the shot I The police working on various angles in hope of the merest clu and with a dragnet over the city, have In 'custodj .lames P. Grace, of Brooklyn 26, a collector, on complaint of the parent! of two girls and for Investigation Investi-gation In the case of tho McCarthy girl. However, nothing has been established, es-tablished, the police say. to connect this man with the Brooklyn mystery. ! The slain child's mother lias been unable to aid the police in Identifying any person she thinks may have been entering the house to see Theresa 'while she was alone in the day time. Thero were very few girls that Theresa ever played with in tho liou'o," she said, 'and never wore any boys here. t casionally on very cold nights, she had one or two girl chums in th.- house lo play." I . . |