The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-08-08
Boy Murder in HsT Haven,

Yesterday an ARRAY occurred in Put,
nam street between two boys, which re-.
suited 10 the death OF one Of them nam
ed Matthew CabiIl, son OF o woman
named Bridget Cahiil. The facts arc
these The two boys, Thomas Sullivan
and Matthew CahiIl, both aged about
fifteen years, were going home about
$50 O'clock from st. Johns GCatho
Iicl Cbnrch, where they had been sent
to Sunday School, in Company with
several other boys. On the way home
Cahill and Sullivan got into a quarrel
about something that had transpired
few days before, during which Cahill
sprapg toward Sullivan to attact him.
At the same instant Sullivan raised q
good sized one bladcd jackknife, and
with desperate thrust drove it into
Cnhill's breast, the blade passing
through the sccopd and third ribs Of
the left breast and entering tie body
about three inches and o hale The
BLADE was ono somewhat worn and rath.
er dull, so that heavy thrust was re
quirel. Young CshlI was Immediately
conveyed to hia home close by, but no
medical aid could save him, and about
2:30 O'clock he died, Young Sullivan
vas soon after arrested, and taken 70
the polite Office. He exhibited very
little concern about the matter when
told that Cahill had died. ifiS parents
called on after and talked with him,
when he showed more telling and wept.
We saw him at 7 o'clock last evening,
when be appeared very calm. He is
quite youthful in appearance; with a
clear open countcnance, indicative Of
frankncss, and impresses one with the
idea that he would hardly be the boy
that would commit such O deed. --Ncr
Uarea JomRaI Aayust 5.
H0ryiJlc DeaM-Boys P}ayj,g ,cjM
Povder.-Two ooys about II years Of
age, in the village Of Mexico, Oswego
County, n. Y we're dreadfulIy injured,
one fatally, last Saturday, by a powder
explosion. They filed the pockets Of
their pants with powder, vent to a 10y
place and commenced trying expert
ments, to sec if it would lift one stone
from another BY being exploded be.
tween. The consequence was that one
was badly burned in the face, and had
his clothes set on fire. The other,
coming to the rescue, got his clothes ig.
nitod, which fired the powder in his
pockets, making terrible explosion,
and completely disemboweling him.
He fingered in great agony until next
morning. when death came to his relief.
He was the son of DR.. Raulston. How
came these boys to get possession of so
much powder for plaything?
An Old Man Killed by his ChiM of
.Sirtecn Years.-A brutal murder case
occurred at Peoria, Mahaska County,
Iowa, on Tuesday morning, 23d ult.
1t seems that an old ma1 by the name
Of Ellis Jones had decided away al. of
his property to his sons, with the condi-
ton that they should support him the
rest Of his life. On Tuesday morning
quarrel arose between the father and
son, IL years old, about a most trivial
matter. During the alteration the son
drew pistol and shot his father in the
left side, infioting a wound which caus-
ed his death in six OF eight hours.
Public opinion in that neiShborhood
seems to Incline to the belief that the
affair was a premcdiated one, concocted
BY he brothers, and that the boy who
committed the act was merely made the
tool of the older but more cowardly
ones.