MURDER OF A BOY.
* - , FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD DEAF MUTE ARRESTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, October 2. A youth named . Clarence Freeman, aged fourteen years, who is almost deaf and dumb, and is mentally deficient, has been arrested on a charge of wilfully murdering tho boy John Anderson, aged 16 years, whoso mutilated body was found in the Warparilla district, near Echuca. Tho police, accompanied by the arrestee, went to tho scene of the tragedy, wliero, by the medium of signs, interpreted by a step-brother, Freeman indicated that ho, Anderson, and a third boy had been bird-nesting, and that tho last-named deliberately shot Andorson while he was up a tree, and then sovered the head from tho body. The polico disorcdit tho theory that there was a third boy. They have ascertained that Freeman had a grudge against Anderson for rabbiting on his (Freeman's) father's' land, and twice threatened to shoot him.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1871, 3 October 1913, Page 7
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149MURDER OF A BOY. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1871, 3 October 1913, Page 7
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