DEAF MUTE BOY CHARGED WITH MURDER.
THE WARPARILLA TRAGEDY, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Molbourno, October 10. The inquiry into the murder at Warparilla of a boy named John Anderson has boon resumed. A girl, aged 11 years (a cousin of the victim), stated that Freeman: the lad aocusea of tho crime, and who is almost deaf and dumb,\ sometimes ,had had disputes with Anderson, and had pointed a pea riflo at him. A sister of tho nccusod, aged 12, said that her brother had blood on his stockings and trousers on returning home on tho day of tho murder. A sohoolboy gave ovidonco that Freeman and Andorson had had a flgnt at school a year ago, and that Freeman had mado signs indicating that ho would shoot Anderson and out his throat. , , ■, Freeman was committed for trial on a chargo of murder.
The victim of the orime,. Anderson, wa3 15 years of aco. When arrested, Freeman indicated oy signs that Anderson and a third boy, who is 14 years of age, had been bird-nesting, and that tho lastnamed deliberately shot Anderson while ho was up a tree, and then severed tho head from the body. This statement of Freeman's waa subsequently proved to be a fabrication.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1878, 11 October 1913, Page 5
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205DEAF MUTE BOY CHARGED WITH MURDER. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1878, 11 October 1913, Page 5
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