The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-24
TELLS HIS STORY.
kOvar Declares killing of James
Boy Was Accidental.
Little Peter Hearthroken as He
Recites Tale, Today.
SCHENCK KNOWS ALL,
Uncle Gave Lad Gun Loaded and
Cooked for Grow Hunt.
John Selik, Il, Arrested Pair
Released on $500 Bonds. =

refer hovar, the I0-year-oId SLAYER Of
asa James. s-yer-oId son OF Robert
JAMES OF RossviIIe, and John SeIIk. Il
FEARS Old. charged with being an
accessory IN the feIouious assault were
sned n the juvenile court this
l--orIl1nG On complaints charging them
WIN 1eIl1g delinquent children and
-Lelr 1ear-ng set for Friday, June !.
At . o'clock
IAeIr bends for appearauca wa-a
81 Il SSue each at the instance of
0"4Aly Attorney Schensk. and both
.eLe Promptly furnished by JoF4u Ko-
81 AdLLer or Peter, who then took the
ooys back to RossviIIe
So4h 14ylor former s1ueriu-er6er
- - oLl:1 Nnee county poor farm, a
1s@-Iet-l o. the RossviIIe neixhborhood
signed the complaints tn b,lvs r7a br7-T
80 q which complaints read thai. said
c-I1L1Fen are inCorrig1ble. d, known fv
--- -S-'l-aLes With Vicious persons and are
9t7,+T4 ~ n crime, under which
@nou1d they be proved guilty. thew viii
% sear 10 the reform school.
DOH the 1oys arrested are wearing
80 PANS Peter hovar IS a slight lad
49, 80 HgOAs enst1Fe1y too young to be
= 1@-ed Win rifle while the SeIfk how
- - $500 = --et larger, four years older
80 1ucn more reserved in taking OF
me kovar boy SPOKE freely Of The
shooting and although he tod the on
C5Es tn2t ne had done the SHOOTING
N lLHoI- telling them il was an 80
tent, he tells L strafgF7+ Sc -
indicating that his rife VS. zo-f+s ---- -
discharged 10y
Uncle Gave Him Rifle.
according to his story his r71cFa
~ = AoVdE, gave him the rifle loaded
AZ a1-u cooked and saw him off with Sc
L. y no also carried 4 rifle, to shoot
CLo~S- Inc Two boys passed the lanes
nome where Asa was in +te zTTq1Fs
patch- cutting some of II. for his nierz
! our mats ragged called K0vsr-
tOaFs Is too and I've got a better
| one reCorted James Did that make
Schenck of the boy. No. didn't
mind that he answered Then
Schenck told him to tell the rest of II
and he said James asked him. Have
you GOT any pigs" to which he ans
7 wered- Yep, I've got twenty" and
James said. I've Just got SIX
Again Mr. Schenck asked him If
/ either OF them were mad and he
replied they were not and the attor-
1ey again told him to tell the rest
Tells OF Shooting
Wen, We started TO GO said the
youth and as turned the trigger
must have caught in my clothes. cause
It went of and Asa fell down
Didn't you stop 70 see what was
the matLer2''
No, sir We ran home
The facts stated by the heartbrok-
en- boy are possible when it Is known
that he stood but six or eight feet
/ from the James boy talking to him.
Sheriff Norton learned that the uncle
VIII kovar, when he gave the rifle TO
the boy, cooked it for him
Cause of Discrepancies.
Various discrepancies which aDUea~ed
n earlier accounts Of the tragedy as com
pared with this are attributable 70 f1tfr-
fled transformation from officers TIE
victim Of the shooting has been called
Arthur the complaint gives his name
Asa The name OF the boy who did the
shooting Is spelled kovar and rot koUar
as understood On the wire John Saii-
was thought By Sheriff Norton to De
named Marayak- because the family
name Is Matayak and SeIfk Is A haIf
BROTHER 10 4 MaLayak boy. who was talk
ed to- But even now the name NAV be
ShUIIk- That L the way the COMPLAINT
has Il but Norton insists II Is SeIIs and
the boy was too frightened to DO auy
more than humble when spoken TO. He
Is g Bohemian OF the colony in that sec
ton So K hovar whose age was marked
everywhere from L to Il until he said IN
broken English that he would be Il June
Last
The inquest 70 be held in RossvfIIe
Friday by Coroner H H Keith is ex-
pected TO throw mora light upon the truth
/ a. he +