Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-19
PASSION LET LOOSE.
An Eight Year-0ld Boy HurlS a Knife
at a Little Girl, With Whom
HE OUARRELS ABOUT A FLOWER.
Sadie. Lewis Stabbed Through the Lung and
Seriously Injured.
CARRYING KNIVES MUCH TOO COMMON

| charge of murder yesterday afternoon.
About o'clock yesterday afternoon
Moses Harris, who is 8 years old and
doesn't look it, was playing on Town.
send street with his 11-year-old
neighbor, Sadie Lewis. Moses, unlike
| his famous namesake, is anything but
meek, and will resent an insult or injury.
flnced or real, with all the force that turks
within his so pounds of flesh and blood.
| Moses became tired of the limited range of
amusement offered by the street, and wanted
to possess himself of a weed which flour
ished luxuriantly in the front yard of
/ Sadie Lewis residence, at No. 80.
The coveted plant has a long and in
teresting latin name, aud is more
| famlliarlv known by the children on the
I hill as "Indian tobies." Sadie objected to
the invasion and quarrel resulted, the
main arguments of which were, 'T won't,
either" and You're another" Moses
asserts, with vehemence, that Sadie was the
aggressor, and the latter is lying too near
the portals of death to make any statement
| to the contrary.
STABBED IN THE BACK.
Moses became violently enraged, and
drawing heavy knife from his pocket,
opened it. Sadie saw the ugly-looking
weapon, and fled, but before she had gone
many feet Moses hurled it at her. The aim
was too true, the blade entered the little
girls back under the shoulder
blade, and penetrated the left lung.
The child was picked up by an elder
sister and carried into the house. DIR. c.
G.. Lange was called in, and after a super
fetal examination, pronounced the wound
| highly dangerous, and probably fatal. A
| certificate to this effect was Immediately
sent to the Office of Inspector MoAleese. who
detailed Detective Robinson to attend to the
case.
The detective went to the girls hom,, and
after learning the details started to find the
boy, who lived across the way, at No. 29
Townsend street. Moses had disappeared
His mother knew nothing of his where
abouts, and the neighbors were equally
obtuse. Finally the detective learned the
boy had been hurried away by man
with a big nose and a long whip.
The description was charmingly indefinite,
but the detective was not daunted, and he
started on a skirmish along Forbes avenue.
Near Magee street the detective met man
with a pronounced nose and a long, 1.-the
whip, and. in police parlance, promptly
"held him up."
A DETECTIVES BOLD BLUFF.
'Where's that boy?" asked the detective.
"What boy?" was the interrogative re-
joinder.
"The boy who did the cutting on Town
send street"
ST don't know anything about a cutting
or a boy"
"Oh, you don't. Well, suppose you come
with me and tell the Inspector that"
1t was a bold bluff on the part of the de-
tective, for he was not sure he had the right
man, but it went. When the man, who
gave his name as Abraham Broudie, reached
Municipal Hall, his knees became weak,
and, after equivocating little, finally con-
fessed that he had taken the boy to No. 40
Chestnut street. Broudie was placed in
cell at the Central station, and the detective
went after the boy.
Moses was playing unconcernedIy in the
back yard when Detective Robinson arrived,
but when told that he was under arrest for
cutting his playmate he began TO cry and
pleaded hunger as reason for respite.
The boy was taken to Central station and
placed under the care of Matron Brennan,
his tender age saving him from incarcera-
tion in cell.
1t was not long until Moses father,
Samuel Harris, appeared at the Inspectors
office in state OF great excitement. Harris
STYLES himself "dealer in foreign fruit"
In disposing of his merchandise, which par
TALLY consists of the satisfying banana and
the juicy but occasionally acid orange. Har
ris employs half dozen men with teams.
He is reputed to be quite wealthy In reply to
questions Mr.. Harris would repeat, Il can
only say wish this had not happened"
He said he knew nothing of the facts in the
case but stated that Broudie was one Of his
employees Harris furnished bail in 81 900
for his sons release.
A SOLEMN WARNING.
Inspector McAleese had the child brought
before him, and questioned him. The boy
was reticent, but the Inspectors reputation
for making anv one talk who is not actually
dumb was not tarnished.
Moses cried little, then braced up, and
finally said: "She scratched my face and
pinched me"
When asked where he got the knife he
replied: "I had it," but it did not know
where it had gone to.
Harris placed the boys hat on his head,
and suggestively running his index finger
around the child's neck, said: Don't you
ever use knife again. If you do they'll
hang you. Won't they, Inspector?''
''They will, indeed" gravely replied the
Inspector.
The Harris family, who are Hebrews as
is the Lewis girl, live in a three-story brick
on Townsend street. The family is large,
and share the building with one or two
more families. Detective Robinson, in
talking to Harris, told him that his boy bore
a bad reputation in the neighborhood, to
which the man replied that his neighbors
were no friends of his. The detective was
told that earlier in the day Moses had cut
another little boys finger with the same
weapon which came SO near ending Sadie
Lewis life.
Late last night the wounded girl was rest
ing easily, and the attending physicians
thought it might be possible to save her life.
THE BOY AND HIS KNIFE.
Inspector Meal eese said last night that of
all the boys arrested, and they are many, al
though most of them are released and their
cases are thus kept from the public, nine out
of ten are armed. 'The revolver he said,
'has gone out of fashion, as the crusade
against the sale of such weapons
to children is beginning to have Its
effect. Nearly every boy carries a
knife, and some of them are very
ugly-looking weapons. Of course, every
boy wants pocketknife, but parents should
be very careful not to allow a child with a
passionate temper to have one. 1t is only
a few days since we had another boy, about
or years old, from the same neighbor-
hood, who had cut a playmate in the leg"
Superintendent Dean, OF the Anti Cruelty
Society, said last evening: 81 have very
few cases from among these people. They
feed and clothe their children, and see that
they are educated, but they do not always
watch their conduct as closely as they
might"