A CHILD TRIED FOR CHILD MURDER.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 135, 20 April 1881, Page 4

A CHILD TRIED FOR CHILD MURDER.

Llvi. f w!l/JL/^ i-UJ. The Chicago Tribune of January 12 •ays:— " Uue of tbe must cxirdOidtniiry WurduT W^o^J^ri^ils "contludt d at WWfyr U M is only uiue years old. The victim was figfen* Xo CQg&iut child, who bus Icai cenTgrammirad f&nu petticoats, aud |vbo jjnJfept jtgi?Hi>Jy (Rive any cumprchcusioii of the awfui crime laid at his "dßororthegiiilt Tnrd "peiiSlty 'attaching p4 ity^b£4<3duri:uas sat /tor three day*, audigbne through allthe ; routine of. trial to which . Muili criminals aVe' subjected. Yyamn Longiu.tire,tb,e prisoner, ; was at fcjreeman VV.ight's iiouaa. on the Bth of Uctpbgi) UW aJicr fiqhool,! v^ur-a; boycat- > tr'actcd by the.Roise,Qf tKcidi^chajcge of tf gun, proceeded 10 the premises an.i dis-cuv^cU-Longniort! digging. a h le. with a s{|adf ia a^maiiqie heap . .the. back o* tUuJbafn'i ,witn^' thY prostrate bod\- \o; VVrign'tiiUll bieatliing, aud ;; a : tfaik «»V blufftt K.aUi l tfg ■'•frOsti- the eloo'rof tile house toitlic*j*oWo %hii> wounded: boy had been shjoi iv the nead aud ncfik,.jt\vp ofth« : slijots- penetrating th,e brainj and he lived ibtit a .bhort time. ' 'Longniore to d very coUffiiitif^-bfdfftl 1 tigkuliog 'tl'ie ; aftitir, ciiiiiuidg that lie took the 'gun clown to ahbotunctit, while -Wright =was to'btand% and[ ; ket;p,,;iieri from getting- away, and thatjsoflgejio^thejgqn vvc^.,off with tLe result poied. Realising whit the terribl«i ;J resurt () orth'e s^'ooHnfe lie detertnuied'tdisde the'body 'of" hi* '■ late ccunraflf, and before life' was -e'itin'ct^raggiid it rrom the house across the yardVand behiiid the .b^/q ! , jwher^ he. ,waß.=surp/istd dijjijin^a., grave,. A/opdical examinatioi ot WrigJttlil.b6dy~dcyel<»|M.d the mqsldjuguhwii ip^jfc^fi^thia. . pbeji^rtenHl' vv right s^. skull was., fractured,, m two plsice^ove'f 'each' ifempiei "It is' charged th4t " -'lfthgtriure^ fil! ifter d ragging l t he bot)y .'bade»*ri vh<*> bam, ; * disco vertd: that Wrijjhiiiv»jtßjn!.)f :d,eaUj.i'ahd < dvliburatcly "st riiclc him with the,, B ( j»ade - to 'the lip. rible. d.eedf .Lougniore.lyiaß not kntwa^MSiHTyicioiU/lad, audit wu« claimed that the tinuoting wa^acpiuental, and his Jbul sequent work thfe 'ttfiult'ofthe crazed Cijmiitiou which, the realisation ..ot 1 his #»«e?d WrW- shim;t5 him ;t into. r Wri£ltia #reSrS^fi'(/W^eT- ti ra ! ai / nt?j'fn Vhk : ( : it i: Wai a .c^setof pfi T rtleflita'tc'd ; <-inurdyr, ( «h-J that ttuiriHtthiiboy t wjkf£o£ixe'di.OßtV .tiiui-dby for the pur^s^juf, Killing, hjinv .Th^-re was a lot of. conflicting .testimony, *uiJ the trial, WB»il?!l inrfirll>t» i ihe' ! iHtt IW^fcd anU i;r them mauity olhthii'^6;iftml(\iii^niid a 'it?ravetity up'Ja jiJsU^v.i-jp&ujitU-jinl.ra; the ijudgetf charge to the jury,' „