SHOCKING MURDER BY TWO BOYS.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 601, 13 December 1871, Page 3

SHOCKING MURDER BY TWO BOYS.

A sad incident occurred at Steubenville county, New York, Infirmary a few days ago, resulting in a horrible death; the burying of a small lad named Murphy, aged five years, a reel-footed child, who was deserted by the mother to cloak her shame. It appears that two other pauper children, named Phillip Sheridon and Andy Stuart dug a large hole in the orchard adjoining the Infirmary. After effecting this part of the diabolical act, the two little fiends, whose ages are respectively, five and ten years, repaired to the Infirmary grounds and caught the reel-footed boy and carried him to his living grave. Shrieking, yet without power of being heard, the little victim was caught by the young executioners and forced into the hole. Holding him down, they shoveled in the earth and stones upon his writhing body, stifling his cries as best as they could until the poor, deformed body ceased to struggle, and the spirit took its flight to Him who gave it. The two young murderers went back to the house without informing any one of the deed, and the buried boy's absence was first noticed by Mr Porter, the Superintendent, about one o'clock. Upon making iuquiries a little black boy informed him that Andy Siuart and Phil Sheridan had " buried' Limpy' down in the holler." On going to the 'spot, Mr Porter found the °newly-made grave, and below the surface the lifeless form of " Limpy." The little murderers have been sent to the Eeformatory. This is one of the saddest incidents we have ever had to record.— New York Standard.