BOYS KILL A MASTER
FOR OBJECTING TO KICKING WET BALLS.
By Cable —Press Association —Oopyrightr London, February 13
Eight boys at Meath Industrial School arc being charged with murdering John Kelly, assistant master.
Received 14, 9,30 p.m. London, February 14.
A boy felled Kelly with 1 a heavy scrubbing brush. His companions then assaulted him, hurling sticks at him, and fracturing his skull. The reason for the murder was Kelly's objecting to the boys kicking wet balls about the yard.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 195, 15 February 1912, Page 5
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80BOYS KILL A MASTER Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 195, 15 February 1912, Page 5
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