The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-17
BUroHERED 4 BoY OF 6.
samuel Henderson. ls. Ties Percy Lockyer to
q Tree in Philadelphia and Kiiis Him.

Samuel Henderson. rs. Ties Percy Lockyer to
q Treo In PhiInd eIphia and Kiiis Elin,.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16.-In the bed of a creek
skirting the edge of Glacken's Woods, in q re-
mote southern part Of the city. there WAS found
this morning tho body Of q murdered little boy
@ years old. He had been missing since Fri
day at noon. Tho child was Percy Lockyer,
one Of a family Of seven small children, whose
father had been employed as an engineer in q
neighboring brickyard, but who for some time
had been out of employment and was in pc
cuniary distress. Percy went to the public
school at Sixty-lrst and Pine streets. On Fri
day he left the school, but did not return to:his
home as usual. An inquiry by his parents in
the neighborhood and q subsequent investiga-
ton by the police showed that he was last seen in
the company OF Samuel Henderson, a 15-year-
old boy, who went to the school after him.
Henderson is a dullard, and does not attend
school. He said he had seen nothing Of Percy,
having been in a blacksmith shop during tho
afternoon. But It happened that another boy,
Willie Addison, q schoolmato Of Percy, was
with him when Henderson came to the school,
and he went along with Henderson, too.
They went to Glacken's Woods to cut sticks.
While there Henderson tied Addison and Percy
He, was a year older than Percy, Before
no nhu run IaT No neuru bCTea1nb lTOm inc ulT6C-
ton OF the creek, which lies at the bottom Of a
hill. He waited awhile until he saw Hender-
sSn coming n up H. The hiI with Percy's clothing.
Upon hearing the boy. Addison's story tho
police decided to arrest Henderson: They con-
but still he denied having been in the woods at
all. Even at that time there was little suspi-
Sioa s that a murder u Dc .d had s been q P : g'Stnn. Dat +
Victim, would DO found alive. Henderson
chief. It was not until the detectives fairly
dragged a statement from him that the case as
To the detectives Henderson said that young
Lockyer had fallen out of a tree, and accident,
ally upon the point Of a Spife which stabbed
discovery, he had thrown the. body in the creek.
to the surface. He volunteered to 90 with the
detectives to the woods and show them the
them thee fr %her wh sSe body boa v sad be asll' thrown sna alf into sh tho
T spsss tst ans a asssdisIsss WIN t 8 sass fh g re-
without q ladder. They found the hat and coat
s Ct the epe %iSs anS s scanned nssf &: e dsen t of L, went TSs TO
prodded the bed with sticks, but no body was
ISaPd Tho They S|f. asked I'd sdiS Ss S1,n,V wh r S WAS :, done 3Ps
place he pointed out no knife was found. Hem
derson said it was a potato knife. Young
Addison said 1t was a clasp knife, with a wood
Henderson was locked up all night. He told
two or three conflicting stories about the af-
fair.
This morning the search for the missing child
was resumed along the bed of the creek. Al 8
o'clock the. police found it in a shallow spot, face
upward. One side of the face was 6rutally
crushed, apparently, by, a heavy stone. There
was o stab wound In the forehead and several
ragged cuts on the face. There were stab
wounds in the body, one directly over the heart,
which must have been fatal. The little fellow
had been butchered. His body will be buried
by members Of st. Georges Episcopal Church,
where the child's parents attended. The Lock-
yers bear a good reputation as honest, motion
sive people.
The police now have on their hands a young
criminal, unmoved by the knowledge that his
crime has been revealed: He is the son Of John
Henderson, proprietor of a grocery at Sixty-hrst
and Lombard streets, who. on Nov. l, 1892, was
placed on trial in the Quarter Sessions Court in
this city for killing Christopher Nelson on July
10 Of that year. He was convicted Of murder in
the second degree. but never sentenced. He
travelled for a time as a sleight ,of;hand Per
father of John Henderson, and grandfather of
the young criminal, was. a well-known city de.
toctlve years ago. During the first term of
Mayor William s. stokley he shot and killed a
man. Young Henderson has ono brother and O
sister. both younger than himself.