MURDER OF A BOY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 88, 10 October 1913, Page 7

MURDER OF A BOY

THE WARPARILLA CASE ENQUIRY RESUMED FREEMAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (By Telegraph.— Press Association,— Copyright.) (Received October 10, 9.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Th© enquiry into the murder at War*parilla of a boy named John Anderson fras resumed, A girl, aged 11 years, a cousin of the .victim, stated that Freeman, the lad accused of the crime, sometimes had had disputes with Anderson, and had pointed a pea-rffle at Anderson. A sister ot the accused, aged 12, said her brother had blood on hja stockings and trousers on returning home on the day of the murder. A achoolhoy gay« evidence that Freeman and Anderson had had a fight at school a year ago, and that Freeman had made sign* indicating that he would shoot Anderson and cut his throat. Freeman was' committed for trja,l on a charge of murder. (.Clarence Freeman, the accused, aged 14 years, is almost deaf and dumb, and is mentally deficient. Anderson was 15 years of age. When arrested, Freeman indicated that he (Anderson) and a third boy had been bird-nesting, and that the last-named deliberately shot A.nderson while he was up a tree, and then severed the head from the body. Later, when Freeman still stuck to his story, the police, with a view to testing its credibility, brought. Freeman into the pre* sence of a boy attending the same school as Anderson. Freeman, by signs, indicated that this was tho boy who had murdered Anderson. The boy was not perturbed; he laughed, and ' said : "I was driving sheep the day of the murder." The police fully verified this statement, and the boy waa not detained.]