Show boy pays with li life fe for one bite of red apple new york an eleven year old colored boy in harlem paid with his hii life for one bite of a red apple he stole the apple from a pushcart in the heart of new yorks black belt the carts owner moses joseph also colored seized an iron pipe and pursued the small thief overtaking him the peddler struck the boy over the head with the pipe according to witnesses and recovered the apple from which the boy had taken a bite in his flight the boy died almost instantly from a crushed skull joseph was held on a murder charge |