Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-06-26 | Page 4 | The Boy who Killed his Brother

THE BOY WHO KILLED HIS BROTHER. (Morning Examiner.) That is a distressing story which comos from California of a boy ol twelve years old, who shot his brother six years of age and buried the little fellow -alive in a pig pen. Crimes of that kind have no pre ventive other than the precepts I taught in the nursery. Murderous thoughts seldom manifest themselves in very young children, and when they do, the child's mind almost invariably in-variably Is found to be weak or early misguided bo- wrong teaching and ox-ample. ox-ample. Thore is nothing of the hardened criminal in a child and the promptings prompt-ings of a murderous act can come from only one of two sources a failure fail-ure to understand the consequences coupled with impulsiveness, or a deranged de-ranged mentality caused by a deformity de-formity which has unbalanced tho mind. The parents in the case of the living liv-ing and dead children are certainly afllicted to the extreme of human endurance.