"MAX DID IT"

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 78, 15 June 1928, Page 8

"MAX DID IT"

YOUNGSTERS SHOOT GIRL. REMARKABLE CONCOCTION. HOBART, May 30. How .two boys, respectively, seven jand five years old, shot a girl with a pea-rifle, and then locked the door or their home, and went to school, leaving the victim bleeding, to die later, was elicited from tbo youngsters by the police, alter they had fold a remarkable story of her being knocked down by a .big blue car. The victim was Elvie Brown, aged 13 years. She was found unconscious, with ai bullet wound in the head, lying in h porch at the rear of the residence of Mr John, Leale, at Woodbury. A baker named Jack Fish made the discovery when he called at the house to deliver bread lateyesterday afternoon. The girl was conveyed with all speed to the Campbelltown Hospital, but died a few .hour|s later. The Leales have two little boysMax, aged and Stanley, aged five. Investigations by the police led to an extraordinary story by these two youngsters. Max .stated that Elvie Brown left the bouse about 8 p.m. yesterday, and -uiis walking along the road when a blue motor car came along, and knocked her down. The driver picked her up, carried her intel the house, locked tbe door, and then drove away. Stanley, the younger child, told a similar story'. •The father'"told the police that on his return home from work last night, Stanley had remarked to a Miss Harris, who whs in the house, "Max did it"* with] a pea-rifle." The police then asked Max if he had f-hot the girl, and by way of answer he picked up the rifle and pointed to the porch where the girl was discovered. Asked if he had pulled the \trigger, Max replied, "No; Stanley pulled it." He 'added' that they had then locked the door and gone to school.