BOY MURDERERS PUNISHED
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL CRIME. Br Telegraphs -Press Association.—CopT-right London, March 3. Sentences have been passed on the Meath Industrial School boys who were convicted of murder or manslaughter in connection with the death of Mr. John Kelly, one of the assistant masters of the school. A boy named Reilly, aged 15, was sentenced to two years, and one named Tuite Smith, over 16, to three years, for murder. Fourteen other boys each received a year's imprisonment for manslaughter. The rest were acquitted. It seems that Kelly aroused the anger of the boys by objecting to their kicking wet balls about the yard. One of the boys felled him with a heavy scrubbing brush, and other boys assaulted the fallen master, hurling sticks at him. His skull was fractured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14933, 5 March 1912, Page 7
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