A widow lady named Booth residing 1 at bheffleld appears to have had a nice little son. « She left her boy Frederick," says an English paper, -'and his sister, nine months old, in the house while she went out to work. During her absence the boy attempted to hang himself, hut the rope broke and let him down. He then seized the carJing kjufe and was about to cut his sister's throat, when the neighbors interfered On Christmas Day the" boy stabbed' the child with a crochct-reedle behind the ear and but for timety assistance the child would most probably have bled to death,"
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 83, 10 April 1877, Page 2
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