A BOY'S CRIME.
SHOOTS HIS EMPLOYER.
Press Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received Tuesday, at 9.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, Tuesday. A tragedy is reported from SpringTerrace, near Orange, a State industrial schoolboy named Duncan, aged fifteen years, having shot his employer, a farmer named Connolly, dead, after the family prayers, wherein the murderer participated.
Duncan got a shot gun and fired through a window as Connolly was retiring to bed.
In his confession to the police, Duncan said that he committed the deed through the rough treatment he had received at the hands of Connolly, and the threats that he would be sent back to the industrial school.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11508, 5 November 1912, Page 5
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104A BOY'S CRIME. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11508, 5 November 1912, Page 5
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