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Show LITTLEBOy Arrested for Killing a Playmate Nine Years Old Topeka, Ids., May 23 Peter Ko. par, aged 12. the son of a fanner living twelve miles northwest of Topeka, To-peka, was arrested today for the murder mur-der of Arthur James, aged 9 years, the son of a neighbor. The boys had quarreled Sunday over a hat and th Kopar boy went homo and secured a riflo and returned and shot the James boy while hi- was In the farm yard, his victim dying In twenty minute without being able to glo the name of his assailant. Kopar was traced by his tracks In the mud to his home and there arrested ar-rested this morning by Sheriff Norton. Nor-ton. He made a full confession to the. ofllcers. lie was brought to Topeka and placed in the county jail. |