MURDER BY BOYS.
MAN’S CLOTHES SOAKED IN OIL AND FIRED.
(Tennessee), July 29. Mitchell Cabinets, aged eighteen, and Clarence Shaw, aged ton. have confessed to the murder of Robert M. Ellis. The boys poured whisky and gasolene on Ellis, who was sleeping in Forest Park and then applied a match. They intended to throw Ellis into a pond, but he died before the blaze could be extinguished.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8187, 31 July 1912, Page 7
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