SCHOOLBOY INDICTED
CHARGES OF MURDER THIRD VICTIM SELECTED NEW YORK, July 19. Albert Jones, aged 14, who is quoted as saying “I just feel like killing, sometimes,” was charged at Oronville, California, with murder, attempted murder and assault with intent to murder. The district attorney, who filed the charges, said that Jones admitted strangling a schoolgirl and setting fire to her home on June 18, shooting and seriously injuring a woman on July 16, tieing up and gagging her grown-up daughter and a six-year-old girl neighbour, and also firing a pistol, which ripped the shirt-sleeve of the woman’s husband when he rushed to rescue her and the bound pair. The district attorney said that Jones would be examined by a psychiatrist, but the State would demand full satisfaction on the double charge of murder. He added that the boy had said that he had chosen a third murder victim, a boy he called his best friend.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22079, 22 July 1946, Page 5
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