The Springdale news., 1915-02-26
ND MOTIVE FOR DELIBERATE
 MURDER GAN BE DISCOVERED
Shot Tuesday Evening at o'clock Boy Lives Until o'clock Wednesday Morning. -Step- mother, Sixteen Years of Age, Can
 Give No Reasons for Brutal Deed

3if. EueOl anu liS iestHeT piehSd up the boy, who was still alive, an bathed his face, which was complete ly covered with blood, and on dis covering the bullet hole in the top of the head, through which the brains were slowly coming out, knew that the boy was badly injured. A doctor was quickly summoned, Dr. J. E. Martin, of Springdale responding While Dr. Martin was enroute to the home, Mrs Massie told her first complete story of the killing of the boy,a and repeated it number of times during the all-night watch ey- CT the dying boy, and also 10 parties Wednesday morning, and told the same story to the coroners Jury She said that she was sitting in the house sewing, and that the boy had gone out in the yard to crack some walnuts, first getting the walnuts and a hammer from the house. lie was kneeling down near the front door, using a large step rock or which to crack the nuts. While the boy was in this position, Albert Lit trell came in the back door, not making a sound until he was inside. She asked him what he wanted ana he tod her to sit still, walking across the room all the time toward a small target gun, the only weapon ol the place She asked him what he was going to do, and he replied that he was going to kill the boy. She again started toward him ard he told her to sit down. The front door was partly open, and LlttreH taxing deliberate aim fired at the boy. Then he turned tie gun on her and tod her he would kill her ii she { told word about the shooting. Ilt- trell then walked out the back door. and away from the house Then she started toward the boy, but didn't touch him. When the boy was shot she said his body fell into the yard, and a few moments after he straight ened up, and staggered toward the house. falling just inside the half op- en door.
 This was the story Mrs. Massie -o,d, and swore up until the discov- cry was made of neat bullet hole through panel in the front door. The hole was made with 22 target, and the inside of the door was pow der burned, the outside of the door showing splinters. The gun was shot through the door, and made the same hole. the second hole being made short distance lower than the first, the powder burns showed in the same way, and the outer part of the door was also splintered. Mrs. Massie was confronted with all this, and advised by her friends to tell the truth. she then confessed, say ing that she killed the boy, put not giving any reasons for so doing.
 The suppositien of those who heard the testimony of the unfortunate | WOllldu Is LIdI SiiS Ipoh li0 S"Ai
 the rack, closed the front door, and sighting through a large knot hole, fired through the thin panel sending the bullet into the brain of her step son, from which he died Wednesday morning about eight o'clock.
 The Massies.
 nd his wife it is learned that they were married in Texas two years ago, looming to Arkansas about six months ago. They located on the farm near the mountain east of Springdale, liv- ing in a tumbled down shack. Along in December the shack burned down, and for two nights they lived in an