MUBDEIt MURDER BY TEN YEAR OLD BOY.
HE BURIES A BABY ALIVE.
CAUGHT IN THR ACT OP TAKING
ANOTHER CHILD.
HOPELESS DEGENERACY.
Received June 10, 10/21 a.m.
LONDON, June 9.
Pat.'ick Knowles, a 10-year-old matchseller, was remanded, at Stockton-on-Tees, on a charge of decoying and murdering a fifteen months baby. He confessed he dug a hole in the sond end laid the crying baby on its back, lifted its pinafore over its face, and then covered it with sand and smothered it, while it continued to cry and kick. He afterwards piled bricks and stones over the place. Prisoner was arrested while taking a s.-cond baby to the same spot
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 808, 10 June 1903, Page 2
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