Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-31
A JUVENILE ASSASSIN.

navy spectacle oil Il child Of only ten
Yeas in prison and charged with nlalic.:
Iou. murder. The whole affair Is in
tan.ile To 4 degree, Tor the victim was
! only ub,iUt three years Old. Ih. scene
of the tragedy was West Acton, Mass.
George Edward Curtain, the older lad,
went with MvrIlsS \. Lane into the
woods for Strawberries. Curtains story
Is that little Lane offended ;liIn by tramp
hing upon the berries, and that Er licked
hi,l" because he continued the otien>e.
and because he broke his Curtain : J
toys 50 that he WAS about Tired of il. =
Ta- nature of this punishment may be
inferred from the wounds inflicted upon
the child There Was n wound nc, osS
the bridge of the hose which had cut to
the bone: another on the side of the
forehead two inches long, which peeled
the flesh to the skull; and :, wound on
the back part of the skul! about three
inches long which reached the bone, and
which probably caused death. Both
arms were black and blue ami there was
bruise over the eye. We beg pardon
for recountins these frishttul particulars,
but it Is necessary to do So III order to
show what intense passions Iaust have
urged boy OF ten to lntilct such cruel
ties upon mere babe. After doing his
dreadful work, Curtain left the bruised
and bIeedin, child in the woods 70 die.
H.. i,iued in tin. search which followed
am, ,r,utly with great r. luctance.
When Lane was asked who had hurt
him he answered Eddie" Apart from
his ~vp confession, This ;s th,. only evi-
d,nce AGAINST the prisoner Of :; direct
,.n,r,et.r and This i,ot being in the M
,n-e of ;, dr;n. declaration c.,, hardly
h.. useI in CONT Indeed the whole cast.
ia of n p..cul,,r and unpreeeJented char
meter
how NJ re-, wbo c,,,1J Ia , deed like
,b,. ,,.y,l,,Io al ,.,,,.;nS;,x ma W..
read win interest th, SLIGHT details
which .,.. ,r,van of hrs character 4.
scbnoI h. Ind IN. credit Of bei,,r the
h.st scholar i, his ,.I,,.s He e MIST
nru,tnr,lIy c,ol .,L mn, in the least
II ,r,n,.a ~ +ba rr-li,..,,n,nt u, which he
t;na. h,m:..lt n,,,,in,, h .x.u,,n.tinp
wh,,.h he nrneu,rJ to find somewhat
wa,,risn,,a h.. L,ld TIL LY,.s;,ie r,o,-
,,auion in his hind and occasionally
s.,l,c.l himself by readinr it. He ais,
read Other n.ws,n,,,ers and now and
then cnt slips from them relating to his
case one of which h. handed To :, pers,n
mar him TO read. Their. is som-tbin.
f..s mating in the spectacle OF such !,
small assassin. W.. -four. him like a
short fiend m a f.ir> tale. We are not
surprised to be informed that his face.
is covered with large. freckles.' But on
the other hand. we are toll that he WAS
not only "the best scholar in his class, -
but tina. "be seemed to think "A great
deal of the baby" as his victim is called
bv all the witnesses.
Considered calmly and apart from the
emotions which such case naturally
excites, the murder seems to have been
merely the result of IA childish rage VEN
tin. itself with the strength OF ten years
opposed to the weakness and helpless
ness of three. L"ctlly, of course. there
can be no homicide in the affair the
older boy not having attained the age of
discretion, and being clearly irresro:lS;-
ble for such an AIT. To be sare. t., nn-