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Show SHOOTS IS LITTLE BROTHER AND BURIES HIM ALIVE IN THE HftPEN Terrible Crime of Twelve-Year-Old Boy Who Quarrels With Six-Year-Old Child Over Food Drives Him From House, Then Shoots Him, and Puts Writhing Little Body in Hole He tfigs in Pen Punches Candy While Telling Story ial will ask whether Ogden has anyj redeeming features. Rev. Mr. Elderkln has been called for another year by tho Congregation-1 al church, and society in Ogden. He t continues in the service of the local . church at an Increase in salary, which j is complimentary to his cervices. had together. I will see tW 80on. With love, (Signed) EfSSIE." The letter to Cliu Gain reads: "I don't want you to feel badly because be-cause Wlllio was here tonight. You know that I love you and you onlv, always. Don't mind Willie. Although Al-though he's nothing to me. I had to l see him. I don't send for him. Your ever loving (Signed) ELSIE." Telegrams announcing the arrest of j euspects in various cities continue to 1 arrive, but in no instance has the missing Leon Ling been identified. Modesta, Cal., June 25. Twelve-- year-old Cecil Hopkins, self-confessed 1 slayer of his G-year-old brother, Theodore, The-odore, made n statement to the coroner cor-oner todav that strengthens the officials offi-cials in tho belief that the victim I was burled allvo in the pig pen, where his body was found yesterdaiy. j "He breathed a little and stretched his arms," said Cecil, in describing the tragedy, and referring to incidents inci-dents following tho firing of the shot J that made a gaping wound in the lit-1 tie boy's head. 1 Cecil was kept in Jail all night and refused to talk until today, when tho coroner made a determined effort to get the details from the child's own lips. As ho told of tho shooting and subsequent burial of his brother, Cocil munched some candy that had been given him at the Jail, and apparently failed to realize the gravity of tho situation. According to his story, he killed lit-tle lit-tle Theodore while the parents were absent from homo. The two were eating luncheon in the house and they quarreled over the food. He first drove his brother from the house, Cecil Ce-cil said, then followed, and in a burst of anger seized a shotgun and fired at the fugitive. Fearing the consequences of his deed when his parents should return, he laid the form of his baby brother in the shadow of a tree- while he made an excavation in the end of the pig pen. While the grave was being dug, Cecil Ce-cil said, Theodore moaned and once stretched his arms. Upon the return of his father and mother. Cecil professed ignorance of the whereabouts of Theodore, and assisted as-sisted in the search until the body was recovered. 'ine cramped 'position of the arms and the fact that the victim's mouth was filled with sand, add to the theory that the child was burled alive. |
